NASAintends to use the moniker Orion as both the title for its next generationmanned craft, the Crew Exploration Vehicle (CEV), and as the project's name.This approach is modeled after the 1960's ...

The Orion spacecraft dates back to 2005, when NASA issued a "request for proposals" to industry with the goal of "developing a new Crew Exploration Vehicle by 2014 that is capable of carrying ...

The first Orion crew module has begun testing at Lockheed Martin's Space Operations Simulation Center (SOSC) in Denver, Colorado. This 41,000 square foot research facility will test the ability of ...

The Orion spacecraft will build on a half a century of spaceflight science to carry humanity beyond the limits of the Earth’s orbit, back to the moon, and to Mars. ... (CEV) announced in ...

With the completion of its assembly and testing of the first Orion spacecraft set to fly astronauts to the moon, Lockheed Martin transferred possession of the Artemis 2 capsule to NASA's ...

Preparations for Orion’s first mission in 2013 are well under way as a Lockheed Martin-led crew begins lean assembly pathfinding operations for the spacecraft. The crew is conducting simulate… ...

NASA's two Voyager spacecraft, launched in the 1970s, have passed beyond the orbit of Pluto and into interstellar space, making them the most distant man-made objects to exist in the universe.

It controls Orion’s attitude, or the direction the spacecraft is pointing. If the crew wants to point Orion’s nose left, the RHC is twisted left – for nose right, they will twist the RHC right.

Canceling the Orion Crew Exploration Vehicle (CEV) makes no sense if the government is serious about a “Flexible Path” approach for lunar fly-bys and visits to asteroids and Mars.

For weeks, the name of NASA's next spaceship has been one of the space agency's worst-kept secrets. Today, "Orion" finally became official, after a space station astronaut spilled the beans yet ...

NASA’s Orion spacecraft could fly unpiloted to rescue astronauts stuck in orbit around the Moon, using sensors and smart navigation software the space agency is currently developing. The agency ...

DONATED BACK TO LOCAL FOOD BANKS. AH, SPLASHDOWN OF THE ORION SPACECRAFT EARLIER TODAY IN THE PACIFIC CLOSED THE BOOKS ON THE ARTEMIS 1 TEST MISSION. IT ALL WENT AS PLANNED. NASA OFFICIALS CALLING ...