Artemis 2 will be the first NASA-led Artemis program mission with humans on board. The uncrewed Artemis 1 flew to lunar orbit ...

Engineers have identified the issue with the Orion spacecraft's heat shield, but NASA isn’t revealing the details yet.

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 that we can thank its two inanimate passengers, Helga and Zohar, a pair of advanced mannequins who are giving us a sense ...

Orion's selfie with Earth and the Moon. Credit: NASA NASA's Orion spacecraft might have successfully traveled to the Moon and back, but its equipment wasn't fully stable throughout the journey.

the builders of the Orion spacecraft added radiation sensors to several sites on both its exterior and interior. The ...

After traveling as far from Earth as any human-rated spacecraft in history, the Orion capsule is set to leave its orbit around the moon and begin to return back to Earth for a splashdown landing ...

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, ...

With the Orion spacecraft soaring through its mission with flying colors so far, the capsule will soon enter its Distant Retrograde Orbit of the Moon with significant tests of various capsule and ...

The four Artemis 2 astronauts recently practiced a key contingency operation as they continue to prepare for their moon mission: opening the side hatch of their Orion spacecraft. If all goes well ...

This is principally because NASA is continuing to mull the implications of damage to the Orion spacecraft's heat shield from the Artemis I mission nearly two years ago. However, it turns out that ...

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 ...