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The service structure is rolled away from NASA's Orion spaceship early Thursday, Dec. 4, 2014, in Cape Canaveral, Fla. Orion is scheduled to lift off later this morning on a United Launch Alliance Delta 4-Heavy rocket on its first unmanned orbital test flight. (AP Photo/Chris O'Meara)

NASA scrubs Orion launch, will try again Friday

By Marcia Dunn - Associated Press

In a photo provided by NASA, the Orion space capsule is seen atop a Delta IV rocket ready for a test launch at the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. (AP Photo/NASA, Bill Ingalls)

BRUCE FEIN: U.S. squanders public’s money on star treks

By Bruce Fein

In this Nov. 12, 2014 file photo, after a 22-mile journey from the Launch Abort System Facility at the Kennedy Space Center, the Orion Spacecraft arrives at Space Launch Complex 37B at the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, in Cape Canaveral, Fla. The test flight for Orion is scheduled to launch on Dec. 4. (Associated Press)

NASA launching new Orion spacecraft on test flight

By Marcia Dunn - Associated Press

In this Nov. 11, 2014, file photo, the Orion Spacecraft moves by the Vehicle Assembly Building on its approximately 22-mile journey from the Launch Abort System Facility at the Kennedy Space Center to Space Launch Complex 37B at the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Cape Canaveral, Fla. The test flight for Orion is scheduled to launch on Dec. 4. (AP Photo/John Raoux, File)

NASA launching new Orion spacecraft on test flight

By Marcia Dunn - Associated Press

The Soyuz-FG rocket booster with Soyuz TMA-15M space ship carrying a new crew to the International Space Station, ISS, blasts off at the Russian leased Baikonur cosmodrome, Kazakhstan, Monday, Nov. 24, 2014. The Russian rocket carries U.S. astronaut Terry Virts, Russian cosmonaut Anton Shkaplerov and Italian astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti. (AP Photo/Dmitry Lovetsky)

Crew docks at International Space Station

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In this Tuesday, Oct. 28, 2014, file photo provided by NASA, the Orbital Sciences Corp. Antares rocket, with the Cygnus spacecraft onboard, explodes moments after launch from the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport Pad 0A, at NASA's Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia. Orbital Sciences says it will likely stop using the type of engines that were employed when its unmanned Antares commercial supply rocket moments after liftoff last week. (AP Photo/NASA, Joel Kowsky, File)

Orbital Sciences to end use of Soviet engines after rocket crash

By Jeffrey Scott Shapiro - The Washington Times

This image from video by KABC TV Los Angeles shows wreckage of what is believed to be SpaceShipTwo in Southern California's Mojave Desert on Friday, Oct. 31, 2014. A Virgin Galactic space tourism rocket exploded after taking off on a test flight, a witness said Friday. (AP Photo/KABC TV)

Space tourism rocket crash stirs mixed emotions

By SETH BORENSTEIN and SUSAN MONTOYA BRYAN - Associated Press

Wreckage lies near the site where a Virgin Galactic space tourism rocket, SpaceShipTwo, exploded and crashed in Mojave, Calif. Friday, Oct. 31, 2014. The explosion killed a pilot aboard and seriously injured another while scattering wreckage in Southern California's Mojave Desert, witnesses and officials said. (AP Photo/Ringo H.W. Chiu)

Can space industry survive 2 explosions in 4 days?

By SETH BORENSTEIN - Associated Press

Billionaire Virgin Galactic founder Richard Branson salutes the bravery of test pilots, and vows to find out what caused the crash of his prototype space tourism rocket that killed one crew member and injured another during a news conference in Mojave, Calif., Saturday, Nov. 1, 2014. Virgin Galactic's SpaceShipTwo blew apart about 20 miles (32 kilometers) from the Mojave airfield after being released from a carrier aircraft Friday. (AP Photo/Brian Melley)

Tech execs running the commercial space race

By MAE ANDERSON - Associated Press

This image from video by KABC TV Los Angeles shows wreckage of what is believed to be SpaceShipTwo in Southern California's Mojave Desert on Friday, Oct. 31, 2014. A Virgin Galactic space tourism rocket exploded after taking off on a test flight, a witness said Friday. (AP Photo/KABC TV)

Space tourism rocket crash stirs mixed emotions

By SETH BORENSTEIN and SUSAN MONTOYA BRYAN - Associated Press

Things to know about Virginia rocket launch site

By Randall Chase - Associated Press

The Cygnus cargo ship held 5,000 pounds of experiments and equipment. One-third of the capsule's contents involved research, including experiments by schoolchildren. (Eastern Shore News via Associated Press)

Rocket contracted by NASA explodes after Virginia launch

By Jeffrey Scott Shapiro - The Washington Times

The unmanned Orbital Sciences Corporation Antares rocket, with the Cygnus spacecraft onboard, explodes seconds after launch from Wallops Island, Virginia, on Oct. 28, 2014 (Screengrab via NASA TV)

Antares rocket explodes after NASA launch

By Jennifer Pompi - The Washington Times

This image provided by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope shows a close-up of the red planet Mars. (AP Photo/NASA) **FILE**

NASA gears up as Comet C/2013 A1 Siding Spring buzzes Mars

By Mark Pace - The Washington Times

In this Friday Sept. 19. 2014 photo provided by NASA Langley Research Center, Mike Logan, a UAV engineer at NASA Langley, carries a UAV drone to the grassy airstrip of the Aviation History Museum in Pungo, Va. NASA is partnering with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to test the use of drones to spot wildfires in the Great Dismal Swamp in southeastern Virginia and northeast North Carolina. (AP Photo/NASA Langley Research Center, David C. Bowman)

NASA drones in national airspace to spot wildfires

By BROCK VERGAKIS - Associated Press

In this artist concept provided by NASA, the MAVEN spacecraft approaches Mars on a mission to study its upper atmosphere. When it arrives on Sunday Sept. 21, 2014, MAVEN's 442 million mile journey from Earth will culminate with a dramatic engine burn, pulling the spacecraft into an elliptical orbit. It's designed to circle the planet, not land. (AP Photo/NASA)

NASA’s Maven explorer arrives at Mars after year

By MARCIA DUNN - Associated Press

In this artist concept provided by NASA, the MAVEN spacecraft approaches Mars on a mission to study its upper atmosphere. When it arrives on Sunday Sept. 21, 2014, MAVEN's 442 million mile journey from Earth will culminate with a dramatic engine burn, pulling the spacecraft into an elliptical orbit. It's designed to circle the planet, not land. (AP Photo/NASA)

NASA: Maven explorer arrives at Mars after voyage of nearly a year, enters orbit red planet

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This Aug. 15, 2014, composite image released by NASA and made by NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity, shows a view looking back toward part of the west rim of Endeavour Crater that the rover drove along, heading southward, during the summer of 2014. NASA announced Thursday, Sept. 11, 2014, that the rover has reached the base of Mount Sharp, its long-term science destination since landing two years ago. Officials say drilling could begin as early as next week at an outcrop of rocks called Pahrump Hills. (AP Photo/NASA, JPL-Caltech, Cornell University, Arizona State University)

NASA’s Mars rover Curiosity finally at Mount Sharp

By MARCIA DUNN - Associated Press