NASA Confirms Orion Spacecraft to Be Relocated to Kennedy Space Center

Technicians at NASA’s Michoud Assembly Facility completed Orion’s assembly in New Orleans. It will next be delivered to Florida. The spacecraft is set for an unmanned mission to the moon in 2018.

NASA’s Orion spacecraft is another step closer to launching on its first mission to deep space atop the agency’s Space Launch System (SLS) rocket. On Jan. 13, technicians at Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans finished welding together the primary structure of the Orion spacecraft destined for deep space, marking another important step on the journey to Mars.

SOURCE NASA