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Bill Nelson and NASA Deputy Director Lori Garver discuss NASA's first Orion capsule following an event marking the spacecraft's arrival in Florida.

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U.S. Senator Bill Nelson, left, and NASA Deputy Director Lori Garver discuss NASA's first space-bound Orion capsule in Kennedy Space Center's Operations and Checkout Building high bay following an event marking the spacecraft's arrival in Florida.

Slated for Exploration Flight Test-1, an uncrewed mission planned for 2014, the capsule will travel farther into space than any human spacecraft has gone in more than 40 years. The capsule was shipped to Kennedy from NASA's Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans where the crew module pressure vessel was built. The Orion production team will prepare the module for flight at Kennedy by installing heat-shielding thermal protection systems, avionics and other subsystems. For more information, visit http://www.nasa.gov/orion. Photo credit: NASA/Kim Shiflett

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  • Title: Bill Nelson and NASA Deputy Director Lori Garver discuss NASA's first Orion capsule following an event marking the spacecraft's arrival in Florida.
  • Location: Kennedy Space Center, FL
  • Owner: KSC
  • Album: cbabir
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