NASA's 1st Manned Flight to Planet Mars in April 2023

Crewed Orion Space Capsule

The first manned space journey to Mars - They are working towards 2021 August but that may not happen. It is a crewed sojourn, is being called Exploration Mission 2 (EM-2). They say that Orion is a first key player in allowing moving of human presence out of low Earth orbit as per NASA's Human Exploration and Operations Directorate. There is another mission SLS - that of a crewed deep space exploration. This one is projected after 2018. NASA also wants an asteroid visit by 2025. The National Aeronautics and Space Exploration of the United States of America was slated to spend $6.77 billion to get Orion ready for EM-2 and through to the end. Barack Obama was being blamed for delaying.
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".. The first crewed flight of NASA's Orion spacecraft, which is being built to help humanity explore Mars and other distant destinations, may be delayed by two years, until 2023, agency officials announced .."
".. NASA is developing Orion, which can support a crew of four for up to 21 days, as well as a megarocket called the Space Launch System (SLS) to enable the crewed exploration of deep space. The capsule will get astronauts to space and back to Earth, and it will carry them on missions in Earth-moon space. (Long journeys, such as the trek to Mars, will feature habitat modules for crewmembers to live in.) .."

".. Orion blasted off for the first time riding a United Launch Alliance Delta IV Heavy rocket on a successful unmanned mission called Exploration Flight Test 1 (EFT-1). .. an uncrewed Orion winging around the moon on the weeklong Exploration Mission 1 (EM-1). .."
".. Orion will carry astronauts .. main goals include making sure that the capsule's crew systems are ready to perform in deep space. The next flight after that, Exploration Mission 3 (EM-3), .. may send astronauts out to rendezvous with a chunk of a near-Earth asteroid that a robotic probe has delivered to lunar orbit. .."

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Find this at http://www.space.com/30560-nasa-orion-space-capsule-crewed-launch-delay.html .