spacecraft. Now under development, the Orion crew exploration vehicle will carry astronauts to the International Space Station and be part of the space flight system to conduct sustained human ...

We’re one step closer to the next moon walk. NASA’s Orion capsule returned to Earth Sunday afternoon, ending its 25-day test flight around the moon — 50 years to the day of the Apollo program’s last ...

Here's when the next flights of the Orion capsule to the moon are now slated to take off. NASA’ is still pushing to send astronauts around the moon in a capsule built by Jefferson County-based ...

Human's return to the moon will wait another year, NASA leadership announced on Thursday, after an investigation into their lunar spacecraft found some issues following its first uncrewed trip around ...

JOHNSON SPACE CENTER – Engineers on NASA’s Orion crew exploration vehicle project are filling in the details on a backup airbag system to protect astronauts if the capsule is forced to return to Earth ...

After "skipping" through Earth's atmosphere blazing in at 25,000 mph, an uncrewed Orion capsule successfully splashed down in the Pacific Ocean on Sunday. Touching down at 12:41 p.m. EST, it marked ...

Four astronauts are about to become the first humans to venture near the moon in more than half a century since NASA's iconic ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. SAN DIEGO — After landing south of San Diego ...

The uncrewed Artemis I mission came to a conclusion Sunday morning after the Orion spacecraft successfully completed a parachute-assisted splashdown off the coast of Mexico’s Baja California peninsula ...

On Sunday, December 11, 2022, the first mission of humanity’s second Moon exploration program ended. It ended with the Orion spaceship making a perfect splashdown in the Pacific Ocean, somewhere off ...

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The Artemis 2 mission, a crewed lunar flyby, has been delayed from September 2025 to no earlier than April 2026 due to unforeseen issues with the Orion capsule's heat shield discovered during the ...