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Photos: Orion launches at dawn
The United Launch Alliance Delta 4-Heavy rocket lifts off with NASA's Orion spacecraft on its inaugural space flight test at 7:05 a.m. EST Dec. 5 from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station's Complex 37.
Delta 4-Heavy blasts off with Orion capsule
NASA's inaugural Orion spaceship has set sail on a two-orbit, four-hour shakedown cruise around the Earth, leaving port atop a United Launch Alliance Delta 4-Heavy rocket and its incandescent power at 7:05 a.m. EST on Dec. 5.
VideoVideo: Delta 4-Heavy tower rollback
The mobile service tower is retracted from the Delta 4-Heavy rocket and Orion spacecraft for Exploration Flight Test 1.
Photos: Gantry rolled back to reveal Orion
The 330-foot tall mobile service tower has been retracted from the Delta 4-Heavy rocket at Cape Canaveral's pad 37B for tomorrow morning's launch that will place the Orion spacecraft on its intended trajectory.
Photos: Delta 4-Heavy with Orion on eve of launch
View photos from the Delta 4 launch pad on the day before liftoff with NASA's first space-bound Orion capsule.
VideoVideo: Orion countdown status briefing
NASA, Lockheed Martin and United Launch Alliance officials hold the L-2 day countdown status briefing following the launch readiness review on Tuesday, Dec. 2.
Previous flights of the Delta 4-Heavy
As a United Launch Alliance Delta 4-Heavy rocket prepares to carry NASA's Orion spaceship on its first orbital flight test, we look back at the seven previous Heavy launches.
Photos: Delta 4-Heavy ready for Orion flight test
The first flight test of Orion will be a two-orbit, four-hour shakedown cruise to check critical systems of the crew capsule.
VideoVIDEO: Expedition 42 news conference on eve of launch
Terry Virts of NASA, Anton Shkaplerov of the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos, Samantha Cristoforetti of the European Space Agency and their backups hold a news conference on the eve of launch.
VideoVIDEO: Expedition 42-43 mission preview
AN overview of Expeditions 42-43 aboard the International Space Station.