The Orion spacecraft that will ... ahead of the uncrewed Artemis 1 test flight. The boosters and stages of the SLS will place Orion on a trans-lunar trajectory that will pass approximately ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, 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 ...

Before the crew can fly around the moon, though, their rocket and capsule ... issue with Orion that emerged after the Artemis I launch in 2022 was its heat shield cracked during reentry.

so it will need to sort that out before the first crewed Artemis mission can launch. NASA is already working to better equip the Orion capsule for re-entry burnup to ensure that the human ...