NASA is studying the addition of an Orion rendezvous demonstration to the Artemis 2 test flight to reduce overall mission risks to the subsequent Artemis 3 lunar landing from first-time operations.

The Space Launch System (SLS) core stage and rocket boosters have now been stood up and mated in preparation for NASA's ...

NASA's Artemis II Orion spacecraft has gone through a critical step in its preparation for launch. Three spacecraft adapter ...

The slow race of getting NASA's Space Launch System rocket pieced together for next year's Artemis II moon mission jumped a ...

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 ...

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’s much-anticipated Artemis II mission has experienced multiple delays in recent years, with the agency currently targeting no earlier than February 2026 for a flight that will send four ...

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 ...

“Every day we are pushing, and not only days, we’re pushing hours and minutes,” said Lockheed Martin’s Kirk Shireman, head of its Orion spacecraft program, at an Artemis media event Friday.

The program's first crewed lunar landing is penciled in for the Artemis III mission, again using SLS and Orion, but adding a new piece: SpaceX's enormous Starship rocket will be used as a human ...

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 ...

That happened in 2022 on the Artemis I mission when an uncrewed Orion spacecraft traveled to the moon. For now, NASA is sticking with the pricey SLS as the rocket for its next two Artemis missions ...