The reasons not to use Project Orion or to not massively rely on nuclear power ... Given these similarities, it’s reasonable to expect uranium on Mars. The Mars Odyssey spacecraft, equipped with a ...

That means, to travel beyond the Moon, considered by NASA to be "deep space," you'd need a spacecraft ... mission at Mars. But there are some important distinctions between Orion and Low Earth ...

But the backbone of the Artemis program relies on a brand new, state-of-the-art spacecraft called Orion. Currently being ... ferrying humans to the moon, Mars, and beyond. By moving into orbit ...

It will be the first crewed flight of the Orion spacecraft, the vessel that has been tapped to send humans to Mars. Both the Orion and the Space Launch System (SLS) associated with it "are ...

To evaluate the spacecraft's manual handling qualities, the crew will pilot Orion to approach and back away from the detached upper stage of the SLS (Space Launch System) rocket. Crew members ...

With the final major Core Stage test completed, the SLS Boosters are stacked in the Vehicle Assembly Building (VAB) and fueling of the Orion spacecraft was expected to begin. EGS and Jacobs are ...

Technicians with ESA (European Space Agency) and Airbus installed the four solar array wings on NASA's Orion spacecraft for Artemis ... first crewed missions to Mars.

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 ...