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.
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 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.
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 ...
How do you get ready for a moon mission? The Artemis 2 astronauts practiced a day in space ahead of their historic liftoff in ...
It was the first look at the interior ahead of the debut crew Artemis ... much like Apollo 8, on their Orion spacecraft. Here's what they had to say of the mission today: Commander Reid Wiseman ...
Orion's European Space Agency-supplied service module, a housing for its propulsion system that was jettisoned before the capsule's descent into Earth's atmosphere, "performed beautifully," ESA ...
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 ...