NASA’s Artemis I mission is entering the back half of its journey. After traveling as far from Earth as any human-rated spacecraft in history, the Orion capsule is set to leave its orbit around ...

Why would you want to sit in front of an old-fashioned log fireplace when you can enjoy a virtual one featuring four rocket ...

A year's worth of testing at NASA's Armstrong Test Facility will wrap up in December, providing valuable safety data for ...

This week’s mission is the first time a NASA spacecraft has been powered by European engineering. Artemis is not an all-American mission—it’s global. Orion is made of three main sections.

For those who follow NASA's human spaceflight program, when the Orion spacecraft's heat shield cracked and chipped away during atmospheric reentry on the unpiloted Artemis I test flight in late 2022, ...

The crew compartment for NASA’s first crewed Orion spacecraft is headed to its launch site in Florida this week after completion of structural assembly at the Michoud Assembly Facility (MAF ...

Following the successful July Ascent Abort-2 (AA-2) test of the Launch Abort System (LAS) for NASA’s Orion crewed spacecraft, the space agency is reviewing the data collected with its contractors.

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Two years ago, on November 16, NASA performed the maiden launch of its Space Launch System (SLS) mega moon rocket that carried an uncrewed Orion spacecraft to orbit in a mission and marked the ...

Lockheed Martin's 2014 annual report cover featured the Orion space capsule. A decade on, it's the biggest driver of cost growth at NASA, and yet to carry astronauts. A new GAO report says Orion's ...