A streak of light across the cloudy sky as NASA's Orion spacecraft mounted atop a United Launch Alliance Delta IV Heavy rocket lifts off December 5, 2014 in Cape Canaveral, Florida. The unmanned Orion spacecraft will orbit Earth twice, reaching an altitude of approximately 3,600 miles above Earth before landing in the Pacific Ocean.

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A streak of light across the cloudy sky as NASA's Orion spacecraft mounted atop a United Launch Alliance Delta IV Heavy rocket lifts off December 5, 2014 in Cape Canaveral, Florida. The unmanned Orion spacecraft will orbit Earth twice, reaching an altitude of approximately 3,600 miles above Earth before landing in the Pacific Ocean.

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Location: Cape Canaveral, Florida, USA
Photo credit: © NASA Photo / Alamy / Afripics
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