NASA ANNOUNCES ORION SPACECRAFT
NASA Associate Administrator for the Exploration Systems Directorate Scott Horowitz (L), NASA Deputy Associate Administrator for the Exploration Systems Mission Directorate Doug Cooke (center left), Orion project manager Skip Hatfield (center right) and NASA Constellation Program Manager Jeff Hanley carry a scale model of the Orion spacecraft, at NASA headquarters in Washington on August 31, 2006. The Orion will be the next generation of human spacecraft which NASA hopes to have in orbit in 2012. (UPI Photo/Kevin Dietsch).headquarters in Washington.
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