#Orion launch management team says we are GO for launch at 7:05 a.m. EST/12:05 UTC! Tune in to watch: http://www.nasa.gov/nasatv
The first flight test of Orion, our next-generation spacecraft capable of sending astronauts on future missions to an asteroid and the journey to Mars, is scheduled to launch today at 7:05 a.m. EST, atop a ULA Delta IV Heavy from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. There is a two-hour, 39-minute launch window.
During the flight test, the un-crewed Orion will orbit Earth twice and travel to a distance of 3,600 miles into space before splashing down in the Pacific.
Image credit: NASA
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