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NASA is considering it as a possible target for a manned mission(Exploration Mission 2) using the Orion spacecraft, prior to a projected 2030 push to Mars.
In spaceflight, especially for NASA's Constellation Program, the term sortie has been used for a flight of the Orion spacecraft beyond the confluence of low-Earth orbit, such as a flight to the Moon or to the Sun-Earth L2 Lagrange Point.
The Constellation space program, began by President George W. Bush in 2004, aimed to launch a next-generation multifunction Orion spacecraft by 2018.