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Lockheed Martin's Orion space craft, designed to take astronauts to the moon, may first be used as an emergency escape vehicle for the international space station. By 2016, NASA wants to run multiple, deep-space missions to the moon and much farther destinations, making the Orion spacecraft key to future space travel."Orion was designed from inception to fly multiple, deep-space missions," John Karas, vice president and general manager for Lockheed Martin's Human Space Flight programs told Computerworld.com.
The Orion spacecraft was first part of NASA's Constellation program, slated to bring humans back to the moon by 2020 but budget cuts and behind-schedule, over-budget construction caused a refocus of the program. Now, the goal is sending astronauts to Mars and further into the solar system.
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