The Artemis I rocket sits on Launch Pad 39-B ahead of sunrise on Friday, Aug. 19, 2022 ahead awaiting its first launch attempt on Aug. 29. The Artemis I rocket sits on Launch Pad 39-B ahead of sunr… ...

Before this Orion capsule entered tests in support of the Artemis 2 mission — the first planned flight to return astronauts to the moon since the Apollo program — and before it became an ...

This coming weekend, Orion will shatter NASA’s distance record for a spacecraft designed for astronauts — nearly 250,000 miles (400,000 kilometers) from Earth, set by Apollo 13 in 1970.

Early Monday, Orion was more than 230,000 miles from home, quickly closing the gap to the moon. The images were provided by cameras on Orion’s solar arrays or the spacecraft’s “selfie sticks.” ...

NASA’s Orion passenger space capsule has passed a huge test, splashing down intact in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of Mexico on December 11. The successful splashdown caps the complex and ...

On the sixth day of the Artemis I mission, Orion’s optical navigation camera captured black-and-white images of craters on the moon. (NASA Johnson) At the time of the lunar flyby, the spacecraft ...

NASA's Artemis I mission propelling an uncrewed Orion spacecraft on a trajectory to the moon kicked off Wednesday morning, Nov. 16, at 1:47 a.m. EST with the launch of the agency's powerful Space ...

The close approach of 81 miles occurred as the crew capsule and its three wired-up dummies were on the far side of the moon. Astronauts will take Orion for a ride around the moon as early as 2024.

NASA's unmanned Orion crew capsule came within 81 miles of the lunar surface on Monday, less than a week into a 25 day flight that's the first step in a multi-phase program to put astronauts back ...

The moon looms larger in a series of images sent back from the Orion capsule. The final image in this set shows Earth in the far background, more than 230,000 miles away. (NASA Photos) ...

NASA engineers tested the functionality of Orion's forward bay cover, which is the last component of the spacecraft that must be ejected before parachutes deploy to land.