Two years ago next week, NASA’s Orion spacecraft splashed down in the Pacific Ocean to wrap up what, at first glance, seemed to be a highly successful unpiloted test flight that made a return to the ...

Less than a year after announcing major delays for the next two Artemis moon missions, NASA managers said Thursday the projected flight dates are slipping once again, with the first piloted voyage ...

WASHINGTON, DC—This week, NASA’s new administrator, Jared Isaacman, said he has “full confidence” in the space agency’s plans to use the existing heat shield to protect the Orion spacecraft during its ...

At the end of June we got word of the Orion spaceship meant for the crewed Artemis II mission having its heat shield installed. It's a piece of news that brings the reality of human flight to the Moon ...

Getting to space is hard. In many ways, getting back is even harder. NASA soon aims to pull off the kind of re-entry it last conducted more than 50 years ago: safely returning astronauts to Earth ...

Engineers have identified the issue with the Orion spacecraft's heat shield, but NASA isn’t revealing the details yet. Reading time 3 minutes NASA finally knows what caused the erosion of the Orion ...

IS STANDARD PROTOCOL IN THREE DAYS. THE ROCKET THAT WILL TAKE THE FIRST CREW TO THE MOON IN MORE THAN 50 YEARS WILL ROLL OUT TO THE LAUNCH PAD AT KENNEDY SPACE CENTER. ARTEMIS TWO COULD BLAST OFF AS ...

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