Orion, the manned crew capsule currently under development, survived the evisceration of the Constellation program relatively intact, and we’re still planning on sending it to Mars. With its seven pieces now fully assembled after many moons, the Orion pressure vessel has made its way from the Michoud Assembly Facility in Louisiana to the Kennedy Space Center via NASA’s outlandish, Pac-Man-resembling Super Guppy aircraft.
The supermassive black hole is 40 million times as massive as the sun and powers a quasar that existed 700 million years after the Big Bang.
The asteroid zoomed by Earth at a perfectly safe distance of around 1.8 million miles (2.9 kilometers).
Images show surprise changes to the spacecraft as it interacted with the atmosphere.
