Orion has been in a distant retrograde orbit of the moon since Nov. 25 and mission controllers plan to light up the spacecraft’s thrusters at 3:53 p.m. Central Time on Thursday to exit the orbit ...

Engineers have identified the issue with the Orion spacecraft's heat shield, but NASA isn’t revealing the details yet.

For those who follow NASA's human spaceflight program, when the Orion spacecraft's heat shield cracked and chipped away ...

The team also noted a surprise in the findings. As Orion passed through the Van Allen Belts, the spacecraft did a flip to ...

According to Hawkins and Glaze, NASA expects to share more information about Orion's heat shield issue before the end of the ...

Orion’s Crew Module area ... (including water and oxygen) as well as propulsion and solar power. This week’s mission is the first time a NASA spacecraft has been powered by European engineering.

and the Interim Cryogenic Propulsion Stage (ICPS) into orbit around the Earth; it actually separates from the spacecraft at an altitude of just 157 kilometers. From that point on, Orion operates ...

NASA identified more than 100 locations where ablative thermal protective material was liberated during its speedy reentry.

The Artemis 2 astronauts are NASA commander Reid Wiseman, NASA pilot Victor Glover (who will become the first Black person to ...

Today, spacecraft propulsion, power for onboard spaceship ... Nuclear pulse propulsion was first developed as Project Orion by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), U.S ...

We’ve had reason to doubt the September 2025 launch date for this mission, the first crewed flight into deep space in more than five decades, for awhile now.

In 1969, Apollo 11 astronaut Neil Armstrong stepped onto the moon's surface—a momentous engineering and science feat marked ...