"Thanks for all your effort," wrote the first moonwalker. Neil Armstrong was appreciative, but as explained in his ...

On NASA's Artemis II test flight, the first crewed mission under the agency's Artemis campaign, astronauts will take the ...

NASA is preparing the Orion spacecraft for its first crewed flight around the moon. Here's how astronauts will fly it.

NASA’s Artemis I mission lifted off from Earth just a few short weeks ago, and since then, the Orion capsule has captured a breathtaking view of Earth and even completed its lunar flyby.

Artemis-I has already provided a test for NASA’s new heavy-lift rocket, the Space Launch System (SLS)—which passed with flying colors—and the Orion spacecraft is now on the way to the Moon.

Astronomers have released new “Christmas Tree Cluster” images using NASA’s Chandra ... star Betelgeuse in Orion and blue Procyon in Canis Minor in an otherwise empty patch of the night ...

On Thursday evening, NASA is ... the Orion spaceship's engineering lead, said there's still one kink with the UWMS: It's too stinky. "If you want to recreate that used spacecraft smell, take ...

Following the successful July Ascent Abort-2 (AA-2) test of the Launch Abort System (LAS) for NASA’s Orion crewed spacecraft, the space agency is reviewing the data collected with its contractors.

NASA is setting up a high-tech simulator, made by Lockheed Martin, to teach astronauts how to operate the Orion capsule during planned moon missions. Weak funding from Congress has cast doubt over ...

Photo: NASA/Associated Press NASA’s Orion spacecraft made a close approach to the moon Monday, about 81 miles above the surface, as it maneuvered to enter a lunar orbit.

WASHINGTON, Dec. 5, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Through the Artemis campaign, NASA will land the next American astronauts and first international astronaut on the South Pole region of the Moon.