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Jun 12, 2007- Kaptur Announces NASA Space Program at Plum Brook

June 12, 2007
Americawill send a new generation of explorers to the moon aboard NASA's Orion crewexploration vehicle. Making its first flights early in the next decade, Orionis part of the Constellation Program to send human explorers back to the moon,and then onward to Mars and other destinations in the solar system.

A component of the Vision for Space Exploration, Orion's development istaking place in parallel with missions to complete the International SpaceStation using the space shuttle before the shuttle is retired in 2010.