NASA put its Orion spacecraft to the test ahead of its planned journey to the Moon. The space agency simulated the extreme ...

NASA shared a slow motion video of the forward bay cover jettison test, which was completed on Nov. 23. The test demonstrated ...

As this illustration of the Apollo VIII command module reentering Earth shows, heat shields protect the crew capsule from ...

Despite these cracks, NASA reports that while there wasn't a crew aboard the Artemis I mission, had there been, they would have been completely safe within the module as temperatures inside Orion ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Credit: NASA/Quentin Schwinn An uncrewed Orion spacecraft successfully traveled thousands of ...

Carlos Garcia-Galan, a 27-year veteran of the space industry, has been appointed deputy manager for the Gateway program at ...

After launching from pad 39B at KSC, Orion will orbit Earth twice before moving into a highly elliptical orbit. About 24 hours later, the crew will ... a habitat module to NASA’s Lunar Gateway ...

NASA's investigation into damage found on the heatshield of the Artemis Mission's Orion module two years ago has ... to protect Orion and its future crew from re-entry temperatures of nearly ...

NASA says the delay is due to the Orion capsule — which sits atop the 30-story Space Launch System (SLS) — needing additional ...