Orion 4

Orion 4 was the mission name for a planned flight of the U.S. space ship Orion. It should be the third flight of the spaceship and the first scheduled replacement crew flight to the International Space Station. The launch was scheduled for September 2014. The mission was canceled along with the Constellation program on February 1, 2010.

Mission overview

After the systems of the spacecraft would have been reviewed in the previous missions, should begin with this flight the regular replacement of the ISS crews, who was previously exclusively with Soyuz spaceships.

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