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 ...

Even using the most powerful rocket NASA's ever built, getting the agency's unpiloted Orion spacecraft to the moon for the Artemis 1 test flight won't be easy. It will hinge on a complex series of ...

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 ...

After passing by the moon, Orion entered a new orbit following an engine burn to change its direction. This distant retrograde orbit put the capsule more than 65,000 kilometers above the lunar ...

The reddish dot and the rays of light are camera artifacts. (NASA / ESA Photo) NASA’s Orion capsule fired its main engine for three and a half minutes today during a close approach to the moon ...

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

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.