NASA's new multi-purpose crew vehicle Orion provided hundreds of passersby with a glimpse of it outside Bob Bullock Texas State History Museum.

The new multi-purpose crew vehicle looks like the capsule that resembles the bowl-shaped ones which was used in the Apollo and Mercury programs.

The new crew vehicle will be used to bring astronauts back to Earth from the International Space Station (ISS), and even to travel to the Moon, Mars and asteroids.

According to NASA officials, the Orion program has high-tech propulsion, life support, along with thermal protection and avionics systems.

Speaking on topic, NASA’s operations manager Dave McAllister said, "We want to stop and show people what we do. It's one thing to do all the engineering, but if we don't tell you what we're doing with your tax money, we've failed."

One capsule is a test-ready mockup of the vehicle that will deliver four astronauts at a time into space when it will become operational. One can not go into the vehicle, but one can peek inside the vehicle and talk to engineers who have worked on it.

Larry Price from Lockheed Martin, a contractor on the Orion program, said that the entire program would around $10 billion.