Artemis 2 will be the first NASA-led Artemis program mission with humans on board. The uncrewed Artemis 1 flew to lunar orbit ...
NASA's Artemis 1 mission's Orion spacecraft captured amazing views of the Earthset as the moon passed in front of it on ...
Engineers have identified the issue with the Orion spacecraft's heat shield, but NASA isn’t revealing the details yet.
See the Artemis 1 Orion spacecraft and Earth about 2 hours prior to splashdown in this time-lapse. Credit: NASA | time-lapse ...
NASA identified more than 100 locations where ablative thermal protective material was liberated during its speedy reentry.
This week’s mission is the first time a NASA spacecraft has been powered by European engineering. Artemis is not an all-American mission—it’s global. Orion is made of three main sections.
We’ve had reason to doubt the September 2025 launch date for this mission, the first crewed flight into deep space in more than five decades, for awhile now.
In late 2022, NASA launched its uncrewed Orion spacecraft around the Moon and back as part of its Artemis I mission, setting ...
The US Departments of Commerce and State (together, the Departments) have taken significant steps to update US export control rules pertaining ...
For those who follow NASA's human spaceflight program, when the Orion spacecraft's heat shield cracked and chipped away during atmospheric reentry on the unpiloted Artemis I test flight in late 2022, ...
In 1969, Apollo 11 astronaut Neil Armstrong stepped onto the moon's surface—a momentous engineering and science feat marked ...
Saturn shines in the south most of the night, Jupiter rises in the early evening, while Mars is visible in the early morning sky.