On NASA's Artemis II test flight, the first crewed mission under the agency's Artemis campaign, astronauts will take the controls of the Orion spacecraft and periodically fly it manually during ...

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.

Armstrong's note and the mission patch proposal that inspired it are up ... cscale rocket models and flown memorabilia from the estate of a NASA engineer who died in 2021. "My father worked ...

as a moon lander that would ferry them from the Orion spacecraft — which launches atop SLS — down to the lunar surface. SpaceX’s deals with NASA, however, are fixed-price, meaning the ...

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.

Nicole Stott is the latest astronaut to lend her autograph to the Space Hipsters Signature Edition series of "signed" patches. A former NASA astronaut who has made it her mission to promote the ...

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 ...

Mike Collins and Buzz Aldrin thanked Clark McClelland for his mission patch ideas. | Credit: Goldberg Coins & Collectibles Separately, Armstrong inscribed one of his early NASA portraits to ...