Orion has been in a distant retrograde orbit of the moon since Nov. 25 and mission controllers plan to light up the spacecraft’s thrusters at 3:53 p.m. Central Time on Thursday to exit the orbit ...

The team also noted a surprise in the findings. As Orion passed through the Van Allen Belts, the spacecraft did a flip to ...

and the Interim Cryogenic Propulsion Stage (ICPS) into orbit around the Earth; it actually separates from the spacecraft at an altitude of just 157 kilometers. From that point on, Orion operates ...

NASA identified more than 100 locations where ablative thermal protective material was liberated during its speedy reentry.

Orion’s Crew Module area ... (including water and oxygen) as well as propulsion and solar power. This week’s mission is the first time a NASA spacecraft has been powered by European engineering.

is essentially Orion's back end. It will provide propulsion, an electricity supply, thermal control, and all the gases and water needed to sustain any humans riding inside the capsule. Fully ...

Solar electric propulsion could be used to send cargo ... lunar orbit Astronauts could be sent to the Gateway in Nasa's Orion capsule. The Orion crew capsule would then dock with a transfer ...

The four Artemis 2 astronauts recently practiced a key contingency operation as they continue to prepare for their moon mission: opening the side hatch of their Orion spacecraft. If all goes well ...

We’ve had reason to doubt the September 2025 launch date for this mission, the first crewed flight into deep space in more than five decades, for awhile now.

Saturn shines in the south most of the night, Jupiter rises in the early evening, while Mars is visible in the early morning sky.

In 1969, Apollo 11 astronaut Neil Armstrong stepped onto the moon's surface—a momentous engineering and science feat marked ...

How do you get ready for a moon mission? The Artemis 2 astronauts practiced a day in space ahead of their historic liftoff in ...