/tags/orion-spacecraft Orion Spacecraft en-US Copyright Fri, 05 Dec 2014 12:12:00 GMT /npr-blogs/2014-12-05/orion-spacecraft-splashes-down-after-high-orbit-test The unmanned spaceship, which could one day take astronauts to the Red Planet, circled Earth twice in a test mission of its basic systems that lasted just under 4 1/2 hours. Fri, 05 Dec 2014 12:12:00 GMT /npr-blogs/2014-12-05/orion-spacecraft-splashes-down-after-high-orbit-test Eyder Peralta, Scott Neuman