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.
The Orion spacecraft for NASA’s Artemis 1 mission is set up back at home in its final assembly cell at the Kennedy Space Center (KSC) in Florida following its last major pre-launch development ...
The choice concerns the Orion spacecraft's heat shield and whether NASA will make any changes before the Artemis II mission that will make a lunar flyby. Although Starliner has garnered a lot of ...
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 ...
'The fact is, we are so far away from NASA centers, and we very seldom get pieces of historic significance. This is a major one.' A space capsule that NASA used to learn more about safely ...
As NASA continues to analyze and refine the profile for the Exploration Mission-1 (EM-1) test flight, more information about the multi-week mission is beginning to be detailed. The Orion ...
On March 13th, NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine testified to Congress that in an effort to avoid further delays, the agency is exploring the possibility of sending their Orion spacecraft to the ...