When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. The Orion Crew Module, also known as the Orion Environmental Test Article (ETA), underwent a ...

Lockheed Martin recently tested a critical event on NASA’s Orion spaceship – the jettison of the forward bay cover on the program’s structural test article. As an Orion spaceship returns to Earth from ...

On its next flight, Exploration Mission-1 (EM-1), NASA’s Orion will come screaming into the atmosphere from the Moon at a whopping 24,700 mph. The aeroshell “ composed of critical heatshield and back ...

PACIFIC OCEAN -- San Antonio class amphibious transport dock ship USS Anchorage (LPD 23) successfully completed recovery operations of the NASA Orion crew module, forward bay cover, and parachutes, ...

Engineers testing the parachute system for NASA’s Orion spacecraft increased the complexity of their tests Thursday, Jan. 16, adding the jettison of hardware designed to keep the capsule safe during ...

Earlier this month, NASA scored a major victory with the flawless launch of the Orion prototype spacecraft. The space agency has now released a thrilling new video showing an astronaut’s-eye view from ...

Following the completion of the heat shield installation, Lockheed Martin has stacked the Orion crew module atop of the service module. The stacking took place inside the Final Assembly and System ...

The Orion spacecraft for NASA’s Artemis 1 mission is set up back at home in its final assembly cell at the Kennedy Space Center (KSC) in Florida following its last major pre-launch development test.