“If the rotational and translational hand controllers didn’t work, we also have a backup to a set of switches.” The Artemis II crewmembers have been in training for the highly anticipated ...

Orion Spacesuit TestingEngineers at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston are evaluating how crews inside a mockup of the Orion spacecraft interact with the rotational hand controller and ...

The Orion spacecraft, which will carry four astronauts around the moon on the Artemis 2 mission, recently reentered an altitude chamber at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

The Orion capsule is also at KSC but more work needs to be done on its heat shield before NASA will let humans fly on it. The Orion capsule that flew on Artemis I in 2022 landed in one piece, but ...