Liftoff of Orion - Orion shuttle takes off at Cape Canaveral

Liftoff of Orion – Orion shuttle takes off at Cape Canaveral

YouTube caption: A Delta IV Heavy rocket lifts off from Space Launch Complex 37 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station carrying NASA’s Orion spacecraft on an unpiloted flight test to Earth orbit. Liftoff was at 7:05 a.m. EST. During the two-orbit, four-and-a-half hour mission, engineers will evaluate the systems critical to crew safety, the launch abort system, the heat shield and the parachute system.