With less than a year before its first unmanned launch, the Orion program will undergo further testing and integration of modules in 2014, prime contractor Lockheed Martin [LMT] said. The launch window for Orion’s Exploration Flight Test-1 (EFT-1) opens on Sept. 18, 2014. A Delta IV Heavy Lift rocket will propel an uncrewed Orion module 3,600 miles above Earth--providing the proof of concept for the NASA project to take human spaceflight beyond lower earth orbit for the first time. In…
