This is a teaser video used to promote NSWC Carderock Division's 6 video series created for the Special Emphasis Program for Asian American Pacific Islander Heritage Month in May 2022. The special emphasis program was hosted as a NAVSEA Warfare Centers collaborative event, but NSWC Carderock developed individual videos curated from our employees to highlight throughout the month of May.
Artemis I, the planned, non-crewed Moon-orbiting mission and first spaceflight in NASA’s Artemis program, successfully launched on Nov. 16 from the Kennedy Space Center on Merritt Island, Florida. Included in the launch was the Orion spacecraft.
Long-time Naval Surface Warfare Center, Carderock Division employees and NASA-lovers alike will remember that, in March 2009, Carderock engineers, alongside a NASA test and evaluation team, designed, fabricated and built two full-scale models of the Orion spacecraft in Carderock’s Model Fabrication facility, one of which was tested at the explosive test pond in West Bethesda, Maryland. This model came to be known as the PORT (Post Landing Orion Recovery Test Article Module). The other was...
11.16.2022 | BETHESDA, MD, US |
Story by Todd Hurley
