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Weather delays Orion move to pad
Bad weather has delayed by 24 hours NASA's next-generation Orion capsule from rolling out to the launch pad for its flight test next month.
Orion is ready to roll
The Orion spacecraft sits inside the Launch Abort System Facility at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida awaiting its rollout to the launch pad Monday night. The spacecraft will be moved to Space Launch Complex 37 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station for its flight test, flying aboard a United Launch Alliance Delta 4-Heavy rocket.
Delta Mariner drops anchor at Vandenberg to deliver rocket
The harbor at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California received a Delta 4 rocket last week, dropping anchor aboard the Delta Mariner cargo ship after transit from the manufacturing plant in Alabama.
VideoVideo: Orion EFT 1 animation
Mike Sarafin, NASA's lead Orion flight director, narrates animation depicting the Exploration Flight Test 1 from liftoff aboard a United Launch Alliance Delta 4-Heavy rocket to splashdown in the Pacific Ocean.
Orion orbital trace
NASA's Orion spacecraft will fly a two-orbit, four-hour mission for Exploration Flight Test No. 1 in Earth orbit to test systems.
VideoVideo: Preview of Orion’s recovery
Jeremy Graeber, Orion recovery director, details how the NASA-Navy team will handle the Exploration Flight Test No. 1 after it splashes down in the Pacific Ocean.
U.S. Navy communications satellite shipped to launch site
A massive U.S. Navy satellite to launch from Cape Canaveral in January has arrived in Florida, kicking off a campaign to ready the mobile communications craft for flight.
Delta 4 passes countdown rehearsal before Orion launch
A countdown dress rehearsal and rocket fueling exercise was completed at Cape Canaveral for next month's launch of NASA's Orion crew module atop a United Launch Alliance Delta 4-Heavy booster.
VideoSoil moisture mapper fueled for January launch
NASA's innovative soil moisture mapper, a new environmental satellite launching in January, has been fueled up for blastoff from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California.
Photos: Atlas 5 soars into space with GPS satellite
It was a beautiful blue sky day for the 50th Atlas 5 rocket launch, which successfully blasted off Wednesday from Cape Canaveral to deploy the GPS 2F-8 navigation satellite.