NASA moved its payload adapter at the Space Flight Center in Huntsville to prepare for the upcoming Artemis IV mission ...

July 17, 2025. Basic information about the Artemis program's Space Launch System and Orion capsule. More for You ...

"Though the House and Senate have much still to debate on full-year appropriations, this much is clear: Congress is rejecting ...

A draft House spending bill would keep NASA’s overall budget flat in fiscal year 2026 but shift money to exploration from ...

NASA’s uncrewed Orion capsule successfully executed an engine burn to enter an unusual type of orbit around the moon on the 10th day of the weeks-long Artemis 1 mission, and it set a distance ...

NASA’s Orion spacecraft, the core of the Artemis I mission, is making a farewell pass by the moon on its historic journey before heading home to Earth.

If Orion successfully returns to Earth, NASA will be able to proceed with a lunar flyby with a crew of four for the second Artemis mission in 2024. A third mission will put astronauts on the moon ...

NASA tested a boilerplate version of the Orion spacecraft in December 2014, launching it to an altitude of nearly 6,000 km. From that orbit Orion reentered Earth's atmosphere at a velocity of 9 km/s.

Orion program engineers talk in front of the Artemis II crew capsule being assembled at Kennedy Space Center, Fla., on Sunday, Aug. 28, 2022. The capsule will carry astronauts on a mission to ...

NASA's crewed Artemis II mission to the moon has been delayed from September 2025 to April 2026. NASA officials announced the delay at a news conference on Thursday, also noting that the Artemis ...

NASA’s Orion spacecraft is pulled into the well deck of the U.S. Navy’s USS Anchorage after its splashdown in the Pacific Ocean on Dec. 5. 2014.

NASA will launch its first Orion crew vehicle on an unmanned test flight from Cape Canaveral on December 4. But the mission will be far from a complete test of the systems needed to send ...