{"id":48660,"date":"2014-12-05T07:14:09","date_gmt":"2014-12-05T14:14:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/12\/05\/the-orion-launch-was-very-cool.html"},"modified":"2014-12-18T15:21:26","modified_gmt":"2014-12-18T22:21:26","slug":"the-orion-launch-was-very-cool","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/12\/05\/the-orion-launch-was-very-cool.html","title":{"rendered":"The Orion launch was very cool"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Harkened back to the capsule launches of my childhood.  Bravo.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"sm2wpreshared\">Originally shared by <a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/101083456815352083930'>+NASA<\/a>:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Missed the launch of <a rel=\"nofollow\" class=\"ot-hashtag\" href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/s\/%23Orion\">#Orion<\/a>? Want to see it again? Watch it here: <a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/1wDOT2c\">http:\/\/bit.ly\/1wDOT2c<\/a>  <\/p>\n<p>NASA&rsquo;s Orion spacecraft launched successfully atop a United Launch Alliance Delta IV Heavy rocket Dec. 5 at 7:05 a.m. EST from Space Launch Complex 37 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. Orion&rsquo;s Exploration Flight Test-1, is the first flight test for NASA&rsquo;s new deep space capsule and is a critical step on NASA&#39;s journey to Mars. The 4.5 hour flight is scheduled to conclude with the splashdown of Orion in the Pacific Ocean.<\/p>\n<p>Watch live coverage now: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/nasatv\">http:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/nasatv<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div><iframe type='text\/html' width='100%' height='385' src='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/photos\/102371865054310418159\/albums\/6089335966551443601\/6089335968647773714' frameborder='0'><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><span style='font-size:small;'><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/101083456815352083930\/posts\/i84xdwC9E43'>View on Google+<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Harkened back to the capsule launches of my childhood. Bravo. Originally shared by +NASA: Missed the launch of #Orion? Want to see it again? Watch it here: http:\/\/bit.ly\/1wDOT2c NASA&rsquo;s Orion spacecraft launched successfully atop a United Launch Alliance Delta IV Heavy rocket Dec. 5 at 7:05 a.m. EST from Space Launch Complex 37 at Cape &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/12\/05\/the-orion-launch-was-very-cool.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Orion launch was very cool&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,82],"tags":[768],"class_list":["post-48660","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-space","tag-orion"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":10143,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2006\/08\/24\/mercury_gemini.html","url_meta":{"origin":48660,"position":0},"title":"Mercury &#8230; Gemini &#8230; Apollo &#8230;","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 24-Aug-06 3:05pm","format":false,"excerpt":"... 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