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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

NASA's four Artemis 2 astronauts this week got their first look at the Orion capsule that will carry them around the moon next year. The astronauts said seeing the hardware firsthand — and meeting the ...

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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 ...

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 ...

Artemis III is NASA’s mission intended to return astronauts to the moon. The plan has been to use SpaceX’s still-experimental Starship — the most powerful rocket system ever built — for the last leg ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated.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 ...