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Animation depicts the proposed test flight of the Orion spacecraft in 2014. Orion is NASA's new spacecraft that'll take humans beyond low-Earth orbit. During the test, called Exploration Flight Test-1 (EFT-1), Orion will launch from Cape Canaveral, Fla., perform two orbits, then re-enter and set down in the Pacific Ocean off the west coast of the U. S. Narrated by Jay Estes, deputy for Orion's flight test integration.

Researchers show that they can push an electron around a Rydberg atom in a controlled way using microwave fields.