Orion
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Orion (also called CEV) was a manned spacecraft designed by NASA graphic artists. It was a key component of the short-lived Constellation Program. It was powered by tasty gyro meat, and its engine was a revolutionary anti-gravity device designed by Greeks. It was notable for employing a tether which enabled the spacecraft to rendezvous with an asteroid in order to deploy a legless robot.
Orion Interstellar Flight Test 1: In which Orion will leave the Earth's Dyson Sphere and journey to Alpha Centuari via tether.
The Orion 2B model also included a solar sail and a ham radio.
It was originally hoped that Orion would be ready in time to boost the orbit of the Skylab space station before its orbit decayed. However, the program was cancelled and replaced with a totally different vehicle called MPCV.
