Orion to Take Men Back to Moon

It is so cool that NASA is going to send men back to the moon. The name of the capsules that will do that job have now officially been given the name of ORION. The logo is cool too.

From Reuters here:

Florida (Reuters) – The U.S. spaceships that NASA wants to build to carry astronauts back to the moon will be called Orion, an agency official said on Wednesday.

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration announced the name about a week early after inadvertently airing on its public satellite television station a message recorded by a space station crew member for future use.

“We’ve been calling it the Crew Exploration Vehicle for several years, but today it has a name – Orion,” station flight engineer Jeffrey Williams said in the message aired on Tuesday.

Orion was the hunter of Greek myth, whose constellation is one of the most easily recognized because of its bright belt of three stars. NASA also borrowed from Greek mythology to name its first fleet of lunar spacecraft, the Apollo series that carried the first humans to the moon in 1969.