Looks aside, NASA’s Orion is “lightyears ahead of what they had in Apollo”

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MICHOUD, La.—Look at NASA’s high-profile Orion spacecraft, and you may get a funny feeling of familiarity. While the modern crew vehicle recently made its big screen debut in the Oscar-nominated The Martian, any lingering deja vu more likely comes from a different place. With the Orion module, there’s more than a passing resemblance to its predecessor—the one from the Apollo program.

“To the untrained eye, it looks very much the same,” says Jim Bray, Lockheed Martin’s Director of the Orion Crew Module. Bray’s been working and thinking about Orion since helping Lockheed win the contract in 2006, and even he can admit it looks “very similar” to Apollo.

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