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thanks! I'll never understand why things get blacked out. oh well. lets go deacs

rare replay anyone?

USA!

5 minutes to liftoff...

Scrubbed. Try again tomorrow at the same time. Better to get it right than to ha e something go wrong.

14 minutes till the next and last attempt of the day.

"Cycling the valves" is rocket-speak for "We'll turn it on and off again until it works" #Orion Edit: that was someone's tweet and the format didn't copy

lets go. 8:26 next launch attempt

Its on NASA TV if you get that channel. while we wait you can watch an (super dramatic) overview of Orion:

#treading

wow. another hold at T-minus 3 minutes. wind violation.

new takeoff at 7:55 am. L minus 9 minutes.

they said they were reverting back to a 9 minute countdown, i believe.

everything is go except for the winds. still trying to find a new takeoff time. launch window extends till around 9:40 am.

ground wind violation. still on a hold, not aborting launch yet.

everything is go for the 7:17 launch

liftoff now scheduled for 7:17 am.

currently in a hold on the liftoff. the 7:05 time is the beginning of the launch window, which is around 2 and a half hours long.

"Critical Step on Journey to Mars" - Orion Test Launch this morning at 7:05 am ET Critical Step on Journey to Mars NASA's new Orion spacecraft is set for its first launch at 7:05 a.m. EST this morning. Lifting off from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida aboard a Delta IV Heavy rocket...