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

The Orion vehicle actually comes in three parts. Astronauts will remain in the central crew module ... and flew two orbits around Earth. The Exploration Flight Test-1 mission took 4.5 hours ...

All work was carried out by teams from both NASA’s Exploration Ground ... when the Orion is inside the Vehicle Assembly Building and from the Crew Access Arm on Mobile Launcher 1.

Administrator Bridenstine didn’t specifically mention which commercial vehicle ... During “Exploration Mission 1”, the SLS is only responsible for getting the Orion, its Service Module ...

During normal mission operations, the crew will not operate the hatches—the ground systems team at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida will assist the crew into Orion at the launch pad ...

Other vehicles included the Crew Exploration Vehicle (CEV) and the Lunar Surface ... Astronauts aboard the Orion spacecraft will explore the asteroid in the 2020s, returning to Earth with samples.

Among the issues uncovered by the Nov. 16-Dec. 11 Artemis I flight test was unanticipated charring of the Orion capsule’s ...

In late 2022, NASA launched its uncrewed Orion spacecraft around the Moon and back as part of its Artemis I mission, setting ...

However, the US lunar program is delayed, in part because the spacesuits and lunar-landing vehicle are not ready. Meanwhile, ...

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.

How do you get ready for a moon mission? The Artemis 2 astronauts practiced a day in space ahead of their historic liftoff in ...