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 ...

The Artemis I Orion spacecraft is currently undergoing final checkouts before the critical milestone of transportation to the Vehicle Assembly Building for final stacking, integration, and ...

The Orion spacecraft for Artemis II has been equipped with four solar array wings by ESA and Airbus. These arrays, each with 15,000 solar cells and nearly 23 feet long, will provide electrical ...

NASA's Artemis 2 crew wants your help designing the plush toy that will fly with them around the moon.

Star patterns such as the hunter Orion and the winged horse Pegasus are commonly called constellations. But the term constellation in modern astronomy actually refers to a particular region of the ...

According to the official application portal, the winning zero gravity indicator must meet certain requirements in order to be eligible for inclusion aboard Artemis II. Given that Orion’s cargo ...

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 ...

Shireman, who leads the Orion program, led the charge defending the Artemis program despite speculation ... from the previous ...

It was initially constructed for Ares I in 2010, but with the cancelation of the Constellation ... and replaced with the Orion spacecraft and service module for the Artemis 1 mission.

March 7 (UPI) --NASA on Friday rolled out the new Artemis II Orion spacecraft and twin Space Launch System solid rocket boosters that will carry astronauts in the first crewed Artemis mission ...

Related: Starship 8 rocket explosion: Video shows debris rain down on FloridaKirk Shireman, Lockheed Martin's Orion program manager, expressed his enthusiasm about the progress of the Artemis ...