NASA engineers and technicians on Thursday put the finishing touches on Orion, the spacecraft designed to take astronauts into deep space.

Thursday’s work marked the conclusion of construction on the first spacecraft designed to carry humans past the moon. The Orion spacecraft, which is expected to take humans to an asteroid and Mars, is scheduled to make its first test flight from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station on Dec. 4.

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