Issues with the Orion spacecraft's heat shield on Artemis 1 have delayed the next mission, Artemis 2. So what happened?

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

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 ...

The crew module, now known as the Orion Environmental Test Article (ETA), recently completed an 11-month test campaign at NASA's Neil Armstrong Test Facility in Sandusky, Ohio. The series of tests ...

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 ...

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Within hours of NASA announcing its decision to fly the Artemis II mission aboard an Orion spacecraft with an unmodified heat shield, critics assailed the space agency, saying it had made the ...

2024 NASA investigated reasons for Artemis I's heat shield issue extensively, concluding that the heat shield of Artemis II could keep the crew safe as the Orion craft slowed from 25,000 mph to ...

Off the coast of Baja California in December 2022, sun sparkled over the rippling sea as waves sloshed around the USS Portland dock ship. Navy officials on the deck scrutinized the sky in search ...

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 ...

So, NASA needed to make sure that any damage to the capsule– even its heat shield, which is meant to take some damage – wouldn’t risk the lives of a future crew. The Orion spacecraft ...