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Orion Overview - NASA

Orion Spacecraft - NASA

To the Moon 🌖🚀 The 2nd Airbus-built European Service Module (ESM) for NASA’s Orion spacecraft is ready for delivery from the Airbus site in Bremen, Germany. An Antonov cargo aircraft will fly the ESM-2 to NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, USA. The European Space Agency - ESA has selected Airbus as the prime contractor for the development and manufacture of 6 ESMs with the 1st ESM soon fly on NASA’s Artemis I mission. The ESM is a key element of Orion, the next-generation spacecraft that