Passing within a scant 81 miles of the moon, NASA's unpiloted Orion capsule fired its main engine Monday in a gravity-assist lunar flyby that put the ship on course for a return to Earth Sunday to ...

NASA's moon-bound Orion space capsule fired its main engine for the first time about eight hours after the launch of the Artemis 1 mission to adjust its trajectory and check out the system.

(NASA / ESA) NASA’s uncrewed Orion capsule successfully executed an engine burn to enter an unusual type of orbit around the moon on the 10th day of the weeks-long Artemis 1 mission, and it set ...

The four Artemis II astronauts will participate in countdown demonstration tests. They will practice suiting up, entering the ...

NASA managers met Saturday and gave flight controllers a “go” to proceed with Orion’s “outbound powered flyby” maneuver, a two-and-a-half-minute firing of the spacecraft’s main engine ...

The space agency held three press briefings since it had to scrub Monday’s launch attempt of the Artemis I’s Space Launch System (SLS) rocket and the Orion capsule due to engine issues and a leak.

SpaceX launched Starship Tuesday, May 27 on its first test flight since March. This time, the vehicle further than the previous two flights.

SpaceX is getting closer to launching Starship, the world's largest rocket, once again on a critical flight test later in May ...

These delays follow an investigation into issues with the Orion spacecraft's heat shield. Previous delays arose over redesigns of life support systems and modifications to rocket engines.

Lockheed Martin handed off the Orion spacecraft for NASA’s Artemis II mission that looks to fly four astronauts around the moon no later than April 2026.