After arriving from NASA's Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans on June 28, the first space-bound Orion capsule was moved into a high bay at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Technicians will turn it into a fully functioning spacecraft ahead of a flight test slated for 2014, which will take Orion farther than any human spacecraft has gone in more than 40 years.<br /><br />Orion will provide emergency abort capability, sustain astronauts during space travel and provide safe re-entry from deep space.<br /><br />The flight test, called Exploration Flight Test-1 or EFT-1, will be an uncrewed flight, loaded with a wide variety of instruments to evaluate how Orion behaves during launch, in the vacuum of space and the through the searing heat of reentry.
