A major milestone for Orion is expected totake place in 2014, when a Delta IV-Heavy lofts the spacecraft on its firsttrip into space on the ExplorationFlight Test-1 (EFT-1) mission.
NASA's Orion spacecraft has proven itsmettle in a test designed to determine the spacecraft's readiness for its firstflight test -- ExplorationFlight Test-1 (EFT-1) -- later this year.