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    A technician inspects a partially assembled spacecraft module in an industrial setting, featuring machinery and metal structures.
    Lockheed Martin engineers at NASA’s Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans weld the cone section for the Orion spacecraft that will carry humans beyond the moon on Exploration Mission-2. The EM-2 crew module was scheduled for delivery at Kennedy Space Center in Florida in late August.
    A technician in a white lab coat works on a large circular spacecraft component in a laboratory filled with equipment, shelving, and caution tape.
    An engineer at the Armstrong Operations and Checkout Building, housing the Orion assembly line, completes the instrumentation of the crew module’s ablative heat shield for Expedition Mission 1.
    Diagram illustrating the path of a spacecraft from Earth to the Moon and back, showing launch, Earth orbit, lunar orbit, and return stages. Paths are marked with colored lines for each phase.
    Exploration Mission-1, the first uncrewed, integrated flight test of NASA’s Orion spacecraft and Space Launch System rocket, is scheduled for 2020 from Cape Canaveral, Florida.
    Two boats guide a space capsule floating in the ocean, equipped with lights and cables visible in the water.
    In January 2018, Kennedy Space Center’s NASA recovery team spent a week aboard the USS Anchorage off the coast of San Diego, where they and the U.S. Navy practiced recovering a crew module mockup ahead of 2020’s planned Exploration Mission-1.