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

Those 116-foot-diameter parachutes of nylon broadcloth, or “silk,” will slow the Orion crew module to a splashdown speed of 20 mph or less. The parachute system includes 11 parachutes made of ...

The Orion crew module orbited Earth twice before splashing down during that test flight. ORION: NASA's Orion spacecraft reaches far side of moon, completes first such attempt since 1972 Orion ...

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 service module placed Orion in a distant retrograde orbit around the moon on day 10. Orion surpassed the distance record of 248,654 miles (400,169 kilometers) -- set by Apollo 13 in 1970 -- on ...

A new ‘Artemis Era’ is about to begin. Here's what you need to know about the first flight of the Space Launch System (SLS) rocket, Orion crew module and European Service Module (ESM) to the ...

The damage to the Orion capsule from the Artemis I mission is already top of mind for NASA as it works to make the Artemis II mission safe for humans. But a new agency report revealed the extent of… ...