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  • Photos: Orion spaceship unloaded from USS Anchorage

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    Fresh home from a high-flying test flight Friday that took it 3,600 miles above Earth, NASA’s Orion spacecraft was pulled off a U.S. Navy recovery ship Monday night for initial inspections before a cross-country trip to its home base in Florida. Credit: Gene Blevins/LA Daily News Credit: Gene Blevins/LA Daily News Credit: Gene Blevins/LA Daily…

  • Orion spacecraft back on land

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    The USS Anchorage arrives at Naval Base San Diego on Monday evening. Credit: NASA A U.S. Navy transport ship carrying NASA’s first space-worthy Orion capsule arrived Monday in San Diego, where ground crews will offload the spacecraft for shipment back to its home port at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The Orion capsule could…

  • Photos: Orion capsule plucked from the Pacific

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    A recovery team stationed in the Pacific Ocean west of Baja California secured NASA’s Orion spacecraft and winched it into the flooded well deck of a U.S. Navy transport ship Friday after the capsule splashed down into the sea to wrap up a successful four-and-a-half hour test flight. U.S. Navy divers assigned to Explosive Ordnance Disposal…