Members of NASA’s Orion crew recovery team rescue an “astronaut” during training for the Artemis II mission at Kennedy Space Center, Fla., Launch Complex 39, Monday, February 6, 2023. The ...

The Orion Crew Module, also known as the Orion Environmental Test Article (ETA), underwent a jettison test of its forward bay cover at NASA’s Neil Armstrong Test Facility in Sandusky, Ohio.

The Orion spacecraft for the moon mission Artemis 2 comes together at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Technicians joined the European service module with the crew module at the Neil ...

Artemis II crew members, shown inside the Neil Armstrong Operations and Checkout Building at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, check out their Orion crew module on August 8, 2023.

The finishing touches on the Orion crew module have taken longer than expected, and the connection of the two Orion modules is now expected in mid-September, two- to three-months later than NASA ...

The Orion crew module for NASA’s Artemis II mission. NASA/Kim Shiflett NASA is intending to use its new Orion capsule to send astronauts to the moon under its Artemis program, but a new report ...

The Orion crew module test capsule rests in the well deck aboard the USS San Diego (LPD-22) at Naval Base San Diego following the Underway Recovery Test 11 in San Diego on Feb. 28, 2024. In ...

Last week, the nation recovered a mock Gaganyaan crew module onto a ship's well deck, which opens to the sea and can be flooded with water so that the module can be hoisted post-splashdown and ...

NASA's Orion spacecraft performed better than expected on its first deep-space flight despite experiencing unpredicted loss of its heat shield material.

NASA's next moon rocket is coming together at the agency's Kennedy Space Center, as the SLS core stage gets its solid rocket boosters.

In June ESA formally hands over the European Service Module-2 to NASA, ready for integration with the Orion crew capsule and then on the road to the launchpad, set for liftoff around the Moon in 2024.

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