THE JOLLY BUCCANEERS

NASA’s Orion spacecraft launched successfully atop a United Launch Alliance Delta IV Heavy rocket Dec. 5 at 7:05 a.m. EST from Space Launch Complex 37 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. Orion’s Exploration Flight Test-1 (EFT-1), is the first flight test for NASA’s new deep space capsule and is a critical step on NASA’s journey to Mars. Nevertheless, everything went smoothly and  The 4.5 hour flight  concluded with the splashdown of Orion in the Pacific Ocean

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