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 preparing the Orion spacecraft for its first crewed flight around the moon. Here's how astronauts will fly it.

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.

NASA’s Artemis I mission lifted off from Earth just a few short weeks ago, and since then, the Orion capsule has captured a breathtaking view of Earth and even completed its lunar flyby.

Neil Armstrong was appreciative, but it was too late. The Apollo 11 crew had a design for the first moon landing. Armstrong's ...

The Orion spacecraft for NASA’s Artemis 1 mission is set up back at home in its final assembly cell at the Kennedy Space Center (KSC) in Florida following its last major pre-launch development test.

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 ...

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 ...

Astronomers have released new “Christmas Tree Cluster” images using NASA’s Chandra ... star Betelgeuse in Orion and blue Procyon in Canis Minor in an otherwise empty patch of the night ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...