The Earth Departure Stage was the name given to the proposed second stage of the Block 2 Space Launch System. The EDS was intended to boost the rocket's payload into a parking orbit around the Earth a
An Ares V EDS with an Altair lunar lander and Orion.
The Constellation program was a crewed spaceflight program developed by NASA, the space agency of the United States, from 2005 to 2009. The major goals of the program, in which no crewed missions flew
Orion spacecraft as of December 2019[update]
The launch of Ares I prototype, Ares I-X on October 28, 2009
Artist's conception of the Orion spacecraft in lunar orbit