Detectors inside Artemis I’s Orion capsule show how much radiation exposure its mannequins underwent and how effective a ...

NASA's Orion spacecraft will need to protect astronauts from dangerous radiation when they visit the moon in the upcoming ...

According to a large team of technical and health specialists, astronauts aboard the Orion spacecraft will be well protected ...

These enormous differences validate the design and shielding concept of the space capsule ... all newly developed systems were tested in combination – the Orion spacecraft, the European Service Module ...

The dummy crew on Orion were fitted with nearly 6,000 sensors that measured radiation exposure as they ventured into space for 25 days, each occupying a passenger seat. Early results, published in ...

Speaking of riding bombs, NASA treats humans with a softer touch than it did in the 1960s, when it was swooping up fighter pilots and shooting them into space. That’s apparent in the design of Orion, ...

The weekend brought some wild space news, including a sailing spacecraft and, of course, a couple of astronauts stranded on the International Space Station.

“This helped us to validate our shelter design to protect crew from energetic ... tie supplies to the least shielded wall of the Orion spacecraft,” George said by email.

The Orion spacecraft was designed to help mitigate the effects of cosmic radiation but to find out more, Nasa sent two mannequin astronauts – named Helga and Zohar – on a trip around the moon ...