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nasa's orion spacecraft is designed to

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send astronauts on exploration missions

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into deep space

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closer to earth orbiting about 250 miles

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up nasa is using the international space

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station to conduct cutting-edge research

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and technology development

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and to increase our knowledge about what

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it takes to live and work for long

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periods of time in space

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currently the six crew members of the

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space station travel to and from the

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orbiting laboratory in russian soyuz

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spacecraft

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nasa's commercial crew program is

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spearheading the development of a u.s

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commercial crew space transportation

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capability that provides safe reliable

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and cost-effective access to and from

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the international space station in low

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earth orbit

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in september nasa selected two

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commercial providers boeing and spacex

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to develop the systems to transport

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astronauts from u.s soil to and from the

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space station using the company's boeing

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cst-100 and spacex crew dragon

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these new american spacecraft will also

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allow us to add a seventh crew member to

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the space station and double the amount

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of time the crew has to conduct research

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aboard the unique microgravity

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laboratory

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certifying and using u.s commercial

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company spacecraft to provide

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transportation services to low-earth

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orbit allows nasa to expand its focus to

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even more ambitious missions sending

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astronauts to explore an asteroid

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learning in the proving ground of space

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around the moon

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ultimately nasa's space launch system

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rocket and orion spacecraft and the

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skills and techniques learned in lunar

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orbit will enable humans to explore mars

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we are going to different exploration

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destinations so we need different

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systems

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nasa will own and operate its orion

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spacecraft and space launch system for

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deep space missions

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and will purchase services from boeing

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and spacex to get astronauts to and from

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the station