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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/sci...n-fails-to-take-off-on-its-maiden-voyage.html

Orion fails to take off on its maiden voyage
Nasa's unmanned spacecraft is hit by gusty winds and technical glitches on its first attempt to launch from Cape Canaveral, Florida

The Delta IV Heavy rocket carrying the Orion spacecraft sits on the launch pad awaiting liftoff*Photo: SCOTT AUDETTE/REUTERS
Agencies6:01PM GMT 04 Dec 2014Comment
A series of mishaps has forced mission controllers to scrub today's planned launch of the Orion spacecraft that could one day take astronauts to Mars.
Wind gusts, sticking fuel valves and a rogue boat entering the launch area meant the rocket carrying Orion could not blast off within its launch window.
The space craft had been due to take off from Cape Canaveral in Florida at 12.05, UK time.
Another attempt to fire Orion into orbit will now be made tomorrow morning.
Mike Curie, from the American space agency Nasa, said: "Despite the valiant attempts of the launch team and mission managers around the country, we basically ran out of time in trying to troubleshoot."
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Orion was due to make an unmanned test flight twice around the Earth before re-entering the atmosphere at 20,000 mph.
The mission is the first since the Apollo moon landings half a century ago to take a spacecraft built for manned flight into deep space.
During its 4.5-hour flight Orion will travel 3,609 miles from Earth, 15 times the distance to the International Space Station.
Nasa hopes to use Orion to put astronauts back on the moon by 2020 and take them to Mars in the 2030s. A midway mission to an asteroid is also on the cards.
Even though the new spacecraft bristles with the latest technology, it bears a striking resemblance to the Apollo command module that carried Neil Armstrong to the moon in 1969.

But unnlike the Apollo module, which carried three astronauts, Orion is designed for a crew of four.
Measuring 16.5 feet across, it is larger than Apollo, which had a diameter of 12.8 feet.
The spacecraft is to be carried in to space by a Delta IV Heavy, the largest US rocket currently in service.
Three RS-68 engines will produce about two million pounds of thrust at lift-off.
After the test flight, Orion is due to splash down in the Pacific off the coast of Baja California
 
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