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(CNN)With one 4½-hour flight Friday, the new spacecraft series that NASA hopes will take astronauts to Mars passed its first test above Earth. NASA's Orion capsule -- part of America's bid to take crews beyond low-Earth orbit for the first time since the Apollo missions -- splashed down in the Pacific Ocean on Friday morning after lapping the planet twice on an uncrewed test flight. The cone-shaped craft, slowed by a series of parachutes, settled onto the water at 8:29 a.m. PT (11:29 a.m. ET) about 600 miles southwest of San Diego. "America has driven a golden spike as it crosses a bridge into the future," a NASA announcer said as the capsule bobbed on the ocean's surface during the agency's TV broadcast of the event.

Friday's launch came a day after

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- America scrubbed its first attempt because of a failure of some valves in the boosters to close.
- Apollo scrubbed its first attempt because of a failure of some valves in the boosters to close.
- CNN scrubbed its first attempt because of a failure of some valves in the boosters to close.
- Earth scrubbed its first attempt because of a failure of some valves in the boosters to close.
- Mars scrubbed its first attempt because of a failure of some valves in the boosters to close.
- NASA scrubbed its first attempt because of a failure of some valves in the boosters to close.
- Orion scrubbed its first attempt because of a failure of some valves in the boosters to close.
- PT scrubbed its first attempt because of a failure of some valves in the boosters to close.
- Pacific Ocean scrubbed its first attempt because of a failure of some valves in the boosters to close.
- San Diego scrubbed its first attempt because of a failure of some valves in the boosters to close.


NASA scrubbed its first attempt because of a failure of some valves in the boosters to close.