NASA’s Orion Spacecraft Splashes Down in Triumphant End to Lunar Mission. ... a winch line and four supporting cables were waiting to lift Orion up to the deck of the ship. ... (5,524 mi) range.

At 1:47 a.m. EST on Wednesday, Nov. 16, Orion began its moon-bound mission atop NASA's massive 322-foot Space Launch System rocket as it launched for the very first time from Kennedy Space Center ...

Passing within a scant 81 miles of the moon, NASA's unpiloted Orion capsule fired its main engine Monday in a gravity-assist lunar flyby that put the ship on course for a return to Earth Sunday to ...

NASA’s Orion spacecraft, the core of the Artemis I mission, is making a farewell pass by the moon on its historic journey before heading home to Earth. CNN values your feedback 1.

An uncrewed Orion capsule successfully splashed down in the Pacific Ocean Sunday, Dec. 11, at 12:39 p.m. ET concluding NASA's Artemis I moon mission.

NASA's Orion capsule is expected to splashdown at 12:40 p.m. EST Sunday, Dec. 11. ... "You have this 700-foot-long ship that's impacted by the waves. It starts moving around.

Orion is scheduled to splash down off the coast of Baja California around 12:40 p.m. EST on Sunday (Dec. 11). Update for Dec. 11, 4:30 pm ET: NASA's Artemis 1 Orion spacecraft successfully ...

Should all go as planned, NASA’s Orion spacecraft will splash down off the coast of Baja, California, on Sunday, December 11 at 12:40 p.m. ET.

Humanity has always looked up at the stars, whispering dreams into the void. But in the 21st century, those dreams are ...

NASA's Orion space capsule is scheduled to leave its current distant retrograde orbit on Thursday, as the spacecraft begins the process of returning home to Earth, Artemis 1 mission management ...

NASA and Lockheed Martin officials pose together during a handover ceremony for the Artemis 2 Orion spacecraft at Kennedy Space Center in Florida on May 1, 2025. (Image credit: NASA/Cory S. Huston) ...

Lockheed Martin handed off the Orion spacecraft for NASA’s Artemis II mission that looks to fly four astronauts around the moon no later than April 2026.