The mission is planned for launch in September 2014, and will see an Orion capsule orbit Earth without a crew and return through the atmosphere at speeds unseen since astronauts last returned from the moon in 1972.
MORE: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/03/130301041613.htm
See also...
Research Rides Dragon to the International Space Station
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/03/130301041812.htm
And...
In Defense of Vulcan
http://www.skepticblog.org/2013/02/28/vulcan/
