Photos: NASA launches Orion spacecraft
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CAPE CANAVERAL, FL - DECEMBER 05: The lights around the United Launch Alliance Delta 4 rocket carrying NASA's first Orion deep space exploration craft are seen as it sits on its launch pad before the mornings mission on December 5, 2014 in Cape Canaveral, Florida. The heavy-lift rocket will boost the unmanned Orion capsule to an altitude of 3,600 miles, and returning for a splashdown west of Baja California after a four and half hour flight. (Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images)