NASA's Orion Space Capsule on Course for 2018 Trip Around the Moon

NASA's next-generation crew-carrying spacecraft remains on track to make a historic journey around the moon in 2018, agency officials say. The bulk structure of the Orion capsule that will be used for that uncrewed test flight, which is known as Exploration Mission-1 (EM-1), is now mostly complete, NASA officials said. This work is being done inside a large clean room at the Neil Armstrong Operations and Checkout Building here at NASA's Kennedy Space Center (KSC).