New heat shields will be manufactured for Artemis III to allow gases to permeate the material. “The Artemis campaign is the most daring, technically challenging, collaborative, international ...

The Trump administration’s mission to root out diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives from the federal government now ...

This is the Artemis I mission, and if all had gone according ... including ensuring Orion's heat shield can withstand the high speed and heat conditions when returning through the Earth's ...

NASA and its partners are pressing to speed up the timeline for the Artemis II launch that will fly humans to the moon for the first time in more than 50 years as the program competes with Trump ...

Invented at Ames, NASA's Heatshield for Extreme Entry Environment Technology (HEEET)—the brown, textured material covering the bottom of the capsule in this photo—is a woven heat shield ...

Nasa has also been investigating "why char layer pieces from its spacecraft's heat shield were lost during the Artemis I mission", said ABC News. "We are returning to the Moon in a way we never ...

Pic: NASA/Marie Reed Worse still for the Artemis programme, there is a problem with the Orion capsule. Cracks in its heat shield that emerged after the Artemis I test flight have led to a two-year ...

Reform or scrap? - Skepticism about the exceedingly expensive SLS and the Orion crew capsule -- whose heat shield issues delayed future Artemis missions -- is widespread among space watchers.