Orion’s Delta IV heavy rocket rolls to the launchpad ahead of test flight

(The rocket that will send NASA’s Orion spacecraft on its first flight test in its vertical launch position at Cape Canaveral – Photo Credit : NASA/Dimitri Gerondidakis)

The rocket that will propel NASA’s Orion spacecraft 3,600 miles above Earth and into space during Exploration Flight Test-1 has now rolled out of the Horizontal Integration Facility near Space Launch Complex 37 and has made the trek to its launch pad at Cape Canaveral.

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(Photo Credit: NASA/Joel Kowsky)

The sun rises at the Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan as Expedition 41/42’s Soyuz TMA-14M spacecraft is rolled out by train to the launch pad ahead of lift-off on September 25th.