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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – NASA dignitaries await their turns at the podium in Kennedy Space Center's Operations and Checkout Building high bay during an event marking the arrival of NASA's first space-bound Orion capsule in Florida. From left are NASA Deputy Administrator Lori Garver Dan Dumbacher, NASA deputy associate administrator for Exploration Systems Development and NASA astronauts Ricky Arnold and Nicole Stott. Slated for Exploration Flight Test-1, an uncrewed mission planned for 2014, the capsule will travel farther into space than any human spacecraft has gone in more than 40 years. The capsule was shipped to Kennedy from NASA's Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans where the crew module pressure vessel was built. The Orion production team will prepare the module for flight at Kennedy by installing heat-shielding thermal protection systems, avionics and other subsystems. For more information, visit http://www.nasa.gov/orion. Photo credit: NASA/Kim Shiflett