Cleveland OH (SPX) Dec 18, 2024 - Making the voyage 1.4 million miles around the Moon and back - the farthest a spacecraft built for humans has ever gone - the Orion spacecraft has faced a battery of tests over the years. Though Ori
The spacecraft hurtled towards Earth at 25,000mph, slowing to around 325mph after entering the atmosphere, before deploying 11 parachutes and dropping to less than 20mph. It had blasted off from Earth on 16 November on NASA's Space Launch System (SLS) rocket as part of the Ar...
While Orion/SLS development proceeds, NASA plans to build a robotic spacecraft to capture a small asteroid, or a piece of one, and tow it back to the vicinity of the moon. Agency managers plan to meet Dec. 16 to decide on a specific mission architecture, setting the stage for initial s...
NASA is developing the Orion spacecraft and the Space Launch System -- SLS -- heavy lift booster to carry astronauts beyond low-Earth orbit in the 2020s, to the vicinity of the moon and possibly a nearby asteroid before eventual flights to Mars in the 2030s. The agency is currently worki...
The core stage of the SLS and its main propulsion system, along with structures for the Orion spacecraft, are slated to be built there. "When we did the crew study, it shined a little brighter light on what we needed to do moving forward," Lightfoot said. "We now know we're going...
NASA's Artemis 1 Orion spacecraft successfully completed a lunar departure burn on Thursday (Dec. 1) to begin heading home after successful orbits of the moon.
Orion will be launched atop the Space Launch System (SLS), NASA's most powerful rocket, during the Artemis I and Artemis II missions. The Orion spacecraft includes a stack of three rocket motors, the abort motor, the attitude control motor and the jettison motor, that work together to ...
Washington DC (SPX) Jan 21, 2014 - Engineers testing the parachute system for NASA's Orion spacecraft increased the complexity of their tests Thursday, Jan. 16, adding the jettison of hardware designed to keep the capsule safe during
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 I wi...
(AP)—NASA's new Orion spacecraft zoomed toward a high point of 3,600 miles (5,800 kilometers) on an orbital test flight Friday, ushering in a new era of exploration that could one day put people on Mars.