World Dec 6, 2014

Orion, NASA's new unmanned spaceship, blasts off for trial run

A U.S. spaceship designed to one day fly astronauts to Mars blasted off Friday from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida for a 4½-hour unmanned trial run around Earth. Riding atop a triple fountain of fire, the 24-story-tall Delta 4 Heavy rocket, the biggest ...