The initiative replaces more than 1,400 annual truck journeys with rail transport, equivalent to 1.2 million road kilometres and 1,500 tonnes of CO₂ savings each year.
After a journey of more than a week, the Orion spacecraft splashed down safely off the coast of California on Saturday, carrying its four-person crew back from a historic lunar flyby. It was the first time astronauts have travelled beyond low Earth orb…