And even if the four people on board the Orion spacecraft won't actually make it to the surface of the planet's satellite, their presence in space is bound to make history. We've known this ...

NASA’s Lucy spacecraft just pulled off its second asteroid flyby and imaged a frankly tasty-looking rock: a peanut-shaped asteroid named Donaldjohanson. The oblong asteroid is a fragment of a ...

His vision was for these Orion-type spacecraft, powered by nuclear pulse detonation engines, to take American astronauts to Mars by the 1960s, Saturn by the 1970s, and perhaps even nearby stars ...

The pleasantly soft glow in the top image—first light for the nascent spacecraft—is light glinting off the dust particles around the Sun. PUNCH will help researchers stay prepared for solar ...

Earlier this month, NASA released a set of photos highlighting a newly arrived module for Gateway, a small space station that the agency aims to launch to lunar orbit in 2027. That module is HALO ...

Artemis 1 launched in November of 2022, sending an uncrewed Orion capsule on a 25-day mission to lunar orbit. Upon its return to Earth, that capsule splashed down in the Pacific Ocean off the ...

This small mascot will float inside the Orion spacecraft, marking the moment the crew enters microgravity as they begin their journey around the Moon. Also Read: How India's 'Idle Cockpit Pilots' May ...

SLS will launch NASA's Orion spacecraft with NASA astronauts Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover and Christina Koch as well as Canadian Space Agency (CSA) astronaut Jeremy Hansen. The quartet will fly ...

WE’RE ABOUT A YEAR AWAY FROM THE FIRST CREWED MISSION TO THE MOON IN DECADES, AND TODAY NASA IS ASKING FOR HELP PUTTING A FIFTH MEMBER ON BOARD THE ORION CAPSULE A MASCOT, IF YOU WILL.

Crews could launch from Earth and travel to the Moon's vicinity inside NASA's Orion spacecraft, connect with the Gateway, and then float into their lunar lander already docked with the outpost.

NASA’s Orion spacecraft passes within 80 miles of the moon during the Artemis I mission in 2022. [Courtesy: NASA] The U.S. is in the midst of a second Space Race, and NASA is in a time crunch.