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[i]By combining the tests that will be conducted with particular test articles, the company plans to send an Orion capsule into orbit on its first test flight in 2013, according to Cleon Lacefield, the company's program manager. The first capsule produced is now being prepared for ground tests at company facilities here and once those are over, it will be reinstrumented to fly on the first ascent abort test in 2014. By dropping the test article originally intended for that evaluation -- which is intended to validate the ability of the vehicle's solid-fuel escape tower to pull it off a failing launch vehicle at maximum dynamic pressure during ascent -- the company has been able to start work on the test capsule that will fly to space for the first time... If all goes according to schedule, piloted operations of the Orion could begin as early as 2016, Lockheed Martin says.[/i]
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