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See the Artemis 1 Orion spacecraft and Earth about 2 hours prior to splashdown in this time-lapse. Credit: NASA | time-lapse ...
Watch the epic view of the moon and Earth captured by the Orion spacecraft ahead of its outbound powered flyby. Credit: NASA ...
The Artemis 1 Orion spacecraft catches a last glimpse of Earth as a full disc before splashdown on Dec. 1, 2022. (Image credit: NASA Television) ...
During the flyby, the capsule was more than 230,000 miles away from Earth. The names Orion and Artemis stem from Greek mythology: Orion is a giant huntsman, and Artemis is the twin of the Greek ...
Trump’s Big Beautiful Bill adds $9.9 billion to NASA’s budget, reversing plans to cut the Space Launch System and Orion.
NASA is gearing up for an exciting chapter in lunar exploration by sending a trio of high-tech instruments to the Moon. Two of the devices will be attached to a new lunar rover capable of carrying ...
In this image taken from a NASA live stream Monday, on flight day 13 of the 25.5-day Artemis I mission, a camera on the tip of one of Orion's solar arrays captured the Moon and Earth as Orion ...
Thanks to Artemis I, Nov. 16 was a date that went down in history. NASA/Joel Kowsky. For the next several weeks, the Hershey Kiss-shaped spacecraft, Orion, flew through the vastness of space.
In the first decades of the 21st century, NASA’s Artemis program aims to return humans to the Moon, ... Then all crew members will return to Earth aboard the Orion craft. Artemis 5 — and beyond.
If successful on Artemis II, the tech could beam 4K video and rich data back to Earth at record speed, proving deep-space ...
Meet the astronauts leading Artemis II This time next year, NASA plans to send its first crewed mission to the moon in more than 50 years. NPR visited the facility to find out how astronauts are ...