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

As this illustration of the Apollo VIII command module reentering Earth shows, heat shields protect the crew capsule from ...

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 ...

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 ...

Carlos Garcia-Galan, a 27-year veteran of the space industry, has been appointed deputy manager for the Gateway program at ...

The Space Coast is set for another busy year in 2025 with new moon missions, new spacecraft and a new rocket debut.

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 ...

In the Apollo missions, NASA engineers used the material as an insulator on the Lunar Module. As they tell it ... of how they did it below. NASA's Orion crew capsule had heat shield issues during ...

Sixty-five years ago, the USSR shocked the world by sending the first robotic emissary from Earth to the Moon. The September ...

AMERICAN space agency NASA has chosen a Spanish engineer from Malaga to help lead its flagship program to return humans to ...

The delay, which to many in the space industry didn’t come as a surprise, was due to flaws in the Orion spacecraft’s heat shield. Now, NASA’s mission ... test killed the crew of what was ...

The Apollo Command Module that carried astronauts to the Moon and back to Earth was developed from scratch in the same decade as the first Moon landing. In the decade since EFT-1, NASA has flown the ...