Speculative Fact #234: Orion Spacecraft

What does NASA have planned as a replacement for the retired Space Shuttle? Enter the Orion spacecraft.
In December NASA will test the spacecraft, which resembles something akin to the Apollo modules that brought men to the Moon. Unlike the Apollo mission, engineers designed the capsules for all manner of interplanetary voyages, with their eyes on Mars.
            If the Orion module becomes a successful design it may become the Conestoga wagon of twenty-first century space exploration. Will it be the vehicle to help map the rest of our solar system? Will it take its place in museums along with the other aerospace relics?  

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