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Studying Orion's heat shield
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Studying Orion's heat shield

NASA / JSC · 2015-05-06 · photograph (digital archive)

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Engineers from NASA's Ames Research Center at Moffett Field, California, and Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, remove samples on May 4, 2015, from Orion's heat shield which flew on Exploration Flight Test-1 (EFT-1) in 2014. The heat shield protected the spacecraft from temperatures reaching 4000 degrees F. Part of Batch image transfer from Flickr.

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Credit lineStudying Orion's heat shield. NASA/JSC, 2015-05-06. Public domain. ID: jsc2022e044467.

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