Orion's Test Flight to Perform Two Orbits (2012)

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Animation depicts the proposed test flight of the Orion spacecraft in 2014. Orion is NASA's new spacecraft that'll take humans beyond low-Earth orbit. During the test, called Exploration Flight Test-1 (EFT-1), Orion will launch from Cape Canaveral, Fla., perform two orbits, then re-enter and set down in the Pacific Ocean off the west coast of the U. S. Narrated by Jay Estes, deputy for Orion's flight test integration.

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