Deep-space capsule Orion has brought man one step closer to landing on Mars after Nasa dubbed its test mission the "most perfect flight you can imagine".
The unmanned spacecraft completed its four hour test flight 3,600 miles above the planet before landing in the Pacific Ocean.
When astronauts eventually take on the mission for real it could take up to three years to complete a round-trip.
The Orion mission was “near flawless” and gathered a lot of “promising data”, experts at NASA have revealed.
In a press conference this afternoon, the Orion programme manager Mark Geyer praised the success of the test flight.
William Gerstermaier, from the human exploration and operations department, thanked the team for the “phenomenal job” they had done in preparing and executing the mission.
He added that it was looking “really good” from a data standpoint as engineers began examining the information which had come back with the craft.
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