Orion first test flight was perfect!

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Originally Posted by razark

Apollo spacecraft first flight: 1966
Apollo flight around moon: 1968
Two lunar landings: 1969


Orion first flight: 2014
Orion first manned flight: Sometime beyond 2020

That's easy

the 60's was due to race between USA and Russia
And JFK famous speak about putting a man on the moon before the end of the decade

Now there's no race and a trip to Mars is far more.... than a trip to the moon is.

They have to establish some kind of base on Mars before the astronaut arrive a.s.o

That what I think.

Markus