A space capsule that NASA used to learn more about safely launching astronauts to the moon has arrived at a U.S. school for a different type of education.
The University of North Dakota (UND) has taken delivery of the Orion Max Launch Abort System (MLAS) test vehicle, which 15 years ago demonstrated one possible way of escaping a failing rocket. The mock spacecraft arrived Monday (Aug. 27), after a week-long, 30-state road trip that began at the Langley Research Center in Virginia and ended in Grand Forks.
"The fact is, we are so far away from NASA centers, and we very seldom get pieces of historic significance. This is a major one," said Pablo de León, chair of the space studies department at UND, in a statement.
