# @nasaartemis on Instagram

- **Type:** Video
- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/BXTtTMKliP2
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/15345143-nasaartemis-instagram
- **Posted:** 2017-08-02T22:19:43.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** NASA Artemis (@nasaartemis) — https://gondola.cc/nasaartemis

## Caption

Have you ever watched Orion's first flight? Did you watch it the day of launch? From the Space Coast? Our team wanted to relive this amazing moment today and we thought we'd share it with you as well! The scene: The successful first flight test of NASA’s Orion spacecraft on Dec. 5, 2014. It not only was a historic moment for the agency – but also was a critical step on NASA’s quest to push humanity farther into the solar system. Orion rode to space from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station on a Delta IV heavy rocket with no crew, but loaded with about 1,200 sensors. The flight test was a compilation of the riskiest events that will happen when astronauts fly on Orion on deep space missions. The next time Orion takes flight it will launch from the historic launch pad 39B at NASA Kennedy atop NASA's Space Launch System rocket. Counting down!! Credit: NASA

#nasa #orion #eft1 #spacecoast nasakennedy #capecanaveral #launch

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eft1, nasa, capecanaveral, launch, spacecoast, orion

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