autoevolution 5 Apr 2021, 12:34 UTC · by On Tuesday, April 6 at 1:45 p.m. EDT, engineers will drop a 14,000-pound test version of the Orion spacecraft into the Hydro Impact Basin at the Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia. The huge reservoir measures 115 feet long (35 meters) and 90 feet (27 meters) wide and it is filled with 1 million gallons of water. 1 photo The water impact tests of the Orion are part of the formal qualification program to fulfill the structural design and requirement verification before Artemis II, NASA’s first mission with crew aboard Orion. This seri...