Marking a significant milestone in the Artemis 2 space mission, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) unveiled its Orion spacecraft at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral. The Artemis program aims to return humans to the Moon, with Artemis 2 being th...
NASA’s Orion will take humans back to the Moon. Airbus-built European Service Module provides propulsion, power, water and oxygen for the Orion spacecraft.
The Earth is seen setting from the far side of the Moon just beyond the Orion spacecraft in this video taken on the sixth day of the Artemis I mission by a camera on the tip of one of Orion’s solar arrays. The spacecraft was preparing for the Outbound Powered Flyby maneuver which w...
On November 28, 2022, Orion reached its maximum distance from Earth during the Artemis I mission when it was 268,563 miles (432,210 km) away from our home planet. Orion has now traveled farther than any other spacecraft built for humans. Credit: NASA After a comprehensive 11-month testing...
The Orion spacecraft is NASA's next-generation capsule to take astronauts to the moon and beyond.
The Orion spacecraft had an intimate brush with the lunar terrain on Monday, hugging the moon's curves just 80 miles above the surface. Shortly after it emerged around the bend, NASA's moonship delivered some mind-warping photographs that flipped the script on our place in space: The ...
Ride Along with Artemis Around the Moon (Official NASA Video) NASA used its new Space Launch System (SLS) rocket — the most powerful space vehicle ever to have launched — to propel the uncrewed Orion spacecraft toward the moon in a mission designed to test the flight system for a crewed...
NASA's Orion spacecraft will be launched in a few days from Kennedy Space Center in Florida, USA, on its mission to the Moon. The Airbus-built European Service Module (ESM) will power Orion to and from its lunar orbit as part of NASA’s Artemis missions.
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NASA’s uncrewed Orion spacecraft reached a maximum distance of nearly 270,000 miles from Earth during the Artemis I flight test before beginning its journey back toward Earth. Orion captured imagery of the Earth and Moon together from its distant lunar orbit, including this image on November 28...