NASA's Artemis II Orion spacecraft has gone through a critical step in its preparation for launch. Three spacecraft adapter ...

The CSM would still be mounted in the CSM Horizontal ... (Photo Caption: The heat flux system that will surround the Artemis 1 Orion spacecraft is seen in the thermal vacuum chamber at Plum ...

During URT 12, DOD and NASA demonstrated and evaluated the processes, procedures and equipment for the recovery operations, ...

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 test.

Once fully assembled, the Orion topped SLS will be rolled out to Launch Complex 39B for testing. The Artemis 2 mission is targeted for launch no earlier than April 2026. You can read and see more ...

The Orion spacecraft for Artemis II has been equipped with four solar array wings by ESA and Airbus. These arrays, each with 15,000 solar cells and nearly 23 feet long, will provide electrical ...

March 7 (UPI) --NASA on Friday rolled out the new Artemis II Orion spacecraft and twin Space Launch System solid rocket boosters that will carry astronauts in the first crewed Artemis mission ...

SLS will launch NASA's Artemis 2 mission to fly four astronauts aboard an Orion spacecraft around the moon and back sometime next year. "Technicians joined the core stage March 23 with the stacked ...

That happened in 2022 on the Artemis I mission when an uncrewed Orion spacecraft traveled to the moon. For now, NASA is sticking with the pricey SLS as the rocket for its next two Artemis missions ...

“Every day we are pushing, and not only days, we’re pushing hours and minutes,” said Lockheed Martin’s Kirk Shireman, head of its Orion spacecraft program, at an Artemis media event Friday.

Related: Starship 8 rocket explosion: Video shows debris rain down on FloridaKirk Shireman, Lockheed Martin's Orion program manager, expressed his enthusiasm about the progress of the Artemis ...

During the 2022 Artemis I mission, the Orion capsule’s heatshield was shedding in ways that were not expected during its re-entry back to Earth. Since then, more than 100 tests at different ...