Orion Flight Test Prelaunch Status and Overview Briefing

During this Dec. 2 prelaunch news briefing about the first flight test of NASA’s Orion spacecraft, officials from NASA, Lockheed Martin and United Launch Alliance discussed the status of prelaunch operations and the activities of the mission itself. The launch of Orion , on Exploration Flight Test-1, is scheduled for December 4, atop a United Launch Alliance (ULA) Delta IV Heavy rocket from Space Launch Complex 37 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. The uninhabited spacecraft will travel 3,600 miles in altitude to test many of the systems most critical to safety, before returning to Earth for a splashdown in the Pacific Ocean.

[@elgroxo]

GO ORION

[@kylelindquist7634]

Go Delta IV and GO ORION!!!

[@scdecade]

This is a very interesting mission. Hope it goes well!!!

[@jimmyhylton9957]

Dang I'll be in class during the launch! I wanted to watch it live.

[@nickkeller4139]

The video is online this long and not even one conspiracy theorist has put a comment on it?!

[@elgroxo]

ur iluminati m8 #reckt

[@turtle2720]

It's a conspiracy :)

[@jimmyhylton9957]

They were shut down by the government, because new world order.

[@NHLFrenzy]

The fact that our military gets hundreds of times more funding than something like this... ugh

[@KSAIPRATHAPREDDY]

Why did they choose pacific ocean to land, i mean i not in land space. is there any special in Orion??

[@cloud1882]

Graphene should be add to this space ship in any way possible

[@hubertwalter1749]

Its sad to see NASA going from awesome space shuttle to this tiny thing. Over 40 years passed from the beginning of the shuttle program and now this, what a shame.

[@McCbobbish]

Unlike the Shuttle, Orion can actually go to the Moon. The Shuttle can't go beyond LEO.

[@cosmefulanix]

you have absolutely no idea what you're talking 'bout

[@kendokaaa]

Hubert Walter You don't know anything about space and it is apparent.

[@jezz2k]

***** Forget the Moon, this thing is going to Mars eventually!

[@kendokaaa]

If they had more funding imagine what NASA could do...

[@Thegrimreaperswrath]

from 5% to .5% of federal budget? that's harsh man. the government doesnt understand the endless potential space has. either that or they are all knuckle heads. i mean at least drop it to 2%, we dont need all that military waste. there hasnt been war for decades now why not spend it to things that would really help.

[@kendokaaa]

That was the republicans, not the whole government
Blame them.