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Watch Live As NASA Drops 7-Ton Orion Spacecraft Into Huge Pool in Water Impact Test On 4/6/21 at 9:07 AM EDT NASA will be showing live footage of its Orion spacecraft water drop test on Tuesday afternoon. At 1:45 p.m. EDT, the space agency will hold a 7-ton test version of the Orion capsule over a huge pool before releasing it to see how it copes with the impact. The idea is to see how the spacecraft might behave when it splashes down in the ocean for real after future missions. Orion is schedu...