NASA’s Orion crew module recently reached a significant milestone in preparations for the Artemis 2 mission, the first crewed ...

Engineers, technicians, mission planners, and the four astronauts set to fly around the moon next year on Artemis II, NASA's ...

Meanwhile, the walls of the Orion Crew Module Adapter are currently being constructed at Michoud. Michoud has a long history is NASA, serving as the assembly facility for the S-IC first stages of ...

Scheduled to launch in early 2026, Artemis II and the Orion spacecraft will host NASA astronauts Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, ...

According to Lockheed – which is NASA’s primary contractor for Orion, and built the crew module, crew module adaptor and launch abort system – the mission also will help advance plans for crewed ...

For the first time since Apollo 17 in 1972, NASA officially has its hands on a spacecraft expected to fly humans to the moon.

Lockheed Martin formally delivered to NASA May 1 the Orion spacecraft for Artemis 2, keeping that mission on track for a ...

Astronauts Cady Coleman and Rick Arnold step into a mock-up of the Orion crew module at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston. NASA Not far from the front gate of the Johnson Space Center in ...

In addition to validating Orion's development tests and checkouts, Lockheed Martin was responsible for upgrading the life support and other systems essential to operate the capsule with a crew ...

EM-1 is a first flight for most of NASA’s current human exploration programs. The Orion crew module is one of the only major elements not making its debut; its first flight was Exploration ...