PRESS RELEASE Date Released: Monday, October 6, 2008 Source: Langley Research Center - Comments HAMPTON, Va. -- NASA's Langley Research Center has completed construction of the Orion crew module flight test article pathfinder that will be used for the first full-scale flight test of Orion's launch abort system, Pad Abort-1. The pathfinder will be used for initial ground-based operations and testing procedures to mitigate risks to the actual Orion crew module flight test article. Engineers and technicians at Langley designed and fabricated the structure, which represents the size, outer shape and specific mass characteristics of the Orion crew module. After verification testing at Langley is completed, the pathfinder will be loaded into a C-17 Globemaster III and delivered to the U.S. Army's White Sands Missile Range in New...
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