Exploration Flight Test No. 1 (EFT-1)

Crew:
    Unmanned

Launch:
    Location: Pad 37B, Cape Canaveral, FL
    Date: 5 December 2014
    Time: 12:05 UTC,

Flight:
    Duration: 4 hours, 24 minutes

Landing:
    Date: 5 December 2014
    Time: 16:29 UTC

Recovery:
    Location: Pacific Ocean, 23.61° N, 116.46° W

Recovery Vessel: USS Anchorage

The first flight of the Orion tested system avionics, software, radiation protection, heat shield, parachutes, and recovery systems. The launch vehicle was a Delta IV. There was no service module on this flight.

This flight was during the mildly ambiguous SLS/MPCV era, after the cancellation of the Constellation program and before the creation of Artemis.

 

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