NASA has released a detailed animation (above) showing how the Artemis II mission will look from launch to splashdown.The ...

"Yet, NASA will face a myriad of daunting budgetary, industrial, geopolitical, technical, and health and medical constraints ...

Considering rendezvous demonstration for Artemis 2 crewed test flight NASA plans three Artemis ... (Photo Caption: Orion RPOD state machine diagram. Some of the proposals for demonstrations ...

To align with revisions to the Artemis program and cost expectations, we informed our Space Launch Systems team of the ...

Artemis-I has already provided a test for NASA’s new heavy-lift rocket, the Space Launch System (SLS)—which passed with flying colors—and the Orion spacecraft is now on the way to the Moon.

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NASA’s Orion spacecraft made a close approach to the moon Monday, about 81 miles above the surface, as it maneuvered to enter a lunar orbit. The test flight of the Artemis I mission is a key ...

The Artemis 2 astronauts inspect their Orion spacecraft. Credit: NASA Since the recent presidential election, there’s been a flurry of speculation about the future of NASA’s Moon to Mars plans ...

In November 2022, NASA launched the uncrewed Artemis I to the moon, and it was a test of the Orion’s and SLS’s systems and hardware. In July 2024, the 212-foot-tall rocket’s SLS core stage ...