First test of Orion is on the 4th December. Keep looking up.

ooo good find there Snowy 

I could watch her report science news all day long.

Bit more info here:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-30234625

Looks like a bit of a delay...

Nasa's Orion deep space capsule launches successfully.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-30343171

Just over an hour till splashdown, according to NASA. That page provides a link that allows you to monitor it's progress, but it's probably getting a huge amount of traffic, since it's not loading for me.

Just to temper the excitement a tad:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-30361943

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-36343542