1. NASA’s Orion Spacecraft
Caitlin Nolby
North Dakota Space Grant Consortium

2. Spaceflight How do you send things to space? Rockets!
How do you return them safely to Earth, or land them on other moons or planets?
Many different ways…
Parachutes!

3. Orion Space Capsule
Designed to take humans to the International Space Station, Mars, and Asteroids!

4. You get to build your own Orion!
What do you want to test?
Size of parachute
Weight
Materials – different connections, space capsules
Length of Ribbon
Height of drop
Different Colors …
Today you are the
NASA engineers!