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Orion: To Mars, the Moon and beyond... but first, a test flight through Van Allen belt

Stevie

Bah!

No, it doesn't fly, it plummets.

It is intended to plummet slightly off-center so that the air flow over the cone produces lift on one side so you can steer it if you are lucky.

A bit.

And this isn't new because they were doing this with Apollo and Gemini and for all I know Mercury too, though I have no actual knowledge about that one and can't be bothered to look it up for you.

But flying, it ain't, unless you are a skydiver (Skydivers also refer to steerable plummeting as flying).

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