The NASA Orion spacecraft that will fly the Artemis 1 uncrewed lunar orbit mission is ... and then we’ll do a re-entry portion of testing,” Wilson explained. “You’ll hear the term ...

on Artemis 1 Orion will fly solo for the first significant period of time after SLS places it on a lunar transfer trajectory. The spacecraft is expected to fly for almost four weeks, getting ...

NASA is intending to use its new Orion capsule to send astronauts to the moon under its Artemis program ... the heat shield or using a different reentry trajectory to subject the capsule to ...

This deceleration allows NASA to pinpoint Orion's landing near the coastline, making it easier to recover the spacecraft's crew. Artemis 1 was NASA's first attempt at a skip reentry with a human ...

Artemis I lifted off at 1:47 a.m. ET on November 16 ... stage separates from the Orion capsule. Nearly an hour and a half after launch, the propulsion stage engine is fired for 20 minutes to ...

The 32-story tall Space Launch System (SLS) blasted off from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida at 1.47am (2.47pm ... Nasa said the spacecraft was on its trajectory to the moon, and later ...

NASA, via Associated Press In November 2022, NASA launched the Artemis I mission, a test of the massive Space Launch System rocket and an uncrewed Orion capsule. That set up Artemis II ...

During the 2022 Artemis I mission, the Orion capsule’s heatshield was shedding in ways that were not expected during its re-entry back to Earth. Since then, more than 100 tests at different ...

NASA has given reporters a look at a spacecraft and a rocket to be used to orbit the Moon as part of the US-led international lunar exploration program, Artemis. The Orion module and the rocket ...