NASA’s Orion spacecraft is built to take humans farther than they’ve ever gone before. Orion will serve as the exploration vehicle that will carry the crew to space, provide emergency abort capability, sustain the crew during the space travel, and provide safe re-entry from deep space retu...
Artemis I will be the first integrated flight test of NASA’s deep space exploration system: the Orion spacecraft, Space Launch System (SLS) rocket and the ground systems at Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida. The first in a series of increasingly complex missions, Artemis...
Well, you’re in luck then, as NASA has just shared a video with lots of juicy details on how to fly the Orion spacecraft. Orion has already traveled around the moon once, inthe Artemis I mission in 2022. But that flight was crewless. Next, the spacecraft will carry four astronauts ...
These might be ‘technical terms’ used by ‘experts’, but when presented to the general public there is the potential for the manipulation of reality through vocabulary. The dividing of space into cislunar space (the region of space within the orbit of the Moon) and deep space, (beyond l...
This collage features views from Orion's live feed during the mission. Top row (l-r): Earth on departure, Earth and one of the spacecraft's solar panels, the first closeup of the Moon featuring Hertzsprung crater. Middle row (l-r): Earthset, the...
To maximize the interior volume in the Orion crew cabin design, Lockheed Martin and its Orion partners took a page from space history, opting for a classic “blunt body” shape, similar to but quite a bit larger than that used for the Apollo craft. As a result, Orion is equipped with ...
Host:All right, okay. So yeah, we could talk a little bit about both, but Orion is the spacecraft. That’s the one that’s actually going to carry the people. Nujoud Merancy:Right, Orion has the people, yes. We’re-- and of course, I’m Orion. So we’re the most important,...
Jeff Fox:Yeah, I was very fortunate. We actually -- what's really unique is you want to be close as you can to this vehicle anytime we're doing tests like this, whether it's parachutes out in the desert in Yuma, Arizona or the spacecraft coming back from space with the EFT-1. ...
This collage features views from Orion's live feed during the mission. Top row (l-r): Earth on departure, Earth and one of the spacecraft's solar panels, the first closeup of the Moon featuring Hertzsprung crater. Middle row (l-r): Earthset, the ...