Dawn of the Orion era

A spectacular sunrise at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida heralds the arrival of a new era in exploration as the countdown continues for the launch of a United Launch Alliance Delta IV Heavy topped by the agency's Orion spacecraft for its first flight test on Exploration Flight Test-1 (EFT-1) on Dec. 4, 2014. Photo credit: NASA

A spectacular sunrise at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida heralds the arrival of a new era in exploration as the countdown continues for the launch of a United Launch Alliance Delta IV Heavy topped by the agency's Orion spacecraft for its first flight test on Exploration Flight Test-1 (EFT-1) on Dec. 4, 2014. Part of Batch image transfer from Flickr.