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As of March 23, 2017, NASA has been working to fly the second flight of its crew-rated Orion spacecraft (produced by Lockheed Martin) atop the space agency's new super heavy-lift Space Launch System (SLS) in late 2018. The mission is planned to take to the skies of the Sunshine State from Kennedy Space Center's Launch Complex 39B located in Florida and is the first planned flight of SLS and the second flight of the Orion Multi-Purpose Crew Vehicle (Orion was first launched atop a United Launch Alliance Delta IV Heavy rocket on Exploration Flight Test 1 in December of 2014). The uncrewed mission is designed to be a circumlunar flight scheduled to last for some three weeks. In February of 2017 Acting NASA Administrator Robert Lightfoot asked for a study to see if it might be possible to have crew fly on the mission.
