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This is Jay Estes. I'm a deputy for flight test integration in the Orion program.

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What you see here is Delta IV heavy booster being launched from the pad.

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This is a flight test that Orion is going to conduct in 2014.

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It's a Delta IV heavy unmanned booster with two strap-on boosters on the side.

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Once we get through first stage, the strap-on booster separates themselves

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and the central core continues on as a second stage.

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Once we get to lower Earth orbit, the second stage shuts down and separates itself

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from the spacecraft and the upper stage.

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At that point, the upper stage lights and takes us on to orbit

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and the service module panels separate

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and then the launch abort system with its shroud,

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which has been covering the capsule, comes off.

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In lower Earth orbit, which is about 250 miles above the surface of the Earth,

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we make one orbit.

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And this orbit lets us check out our systems.

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After one orbit, we ignite the upper stage and we lift the orbit

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to about 3600 miles.