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NASA's deep-space crew capsule faces first big test

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Orion will fly without astronauts for now, but may eventually ferry them to Mars.

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Witze, A. NASA's deep-space crew capsule faces first big test. Nature (2014). https://doi.org/10.1038/nature.2014.16476

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