Airbus: delivers Orion spacecraft module to NASA

(CercleFinance.com) - Airbus has announced that the third European Service Module (ESM-3) for Orion has left its Bremen, Germany facility for NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, where it will be assembled and tested along with the crew module.


This third mission in NASA's Artemis program will mark mankind's return to the lunar surface since Apollo 17 in 1972.

The ESM-3, built by Airbus under contract to the European Space Agency (ESA), will play a key role in supporting the four astronauts during their three-week mission aboard the Orion spacecraft.

Today's shipment of the third ESM marks the start of the annual ESM delivery cadence, underlining the importance and reliability of Europe in this transatlantic partnership, Airbus said.


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