See amazing photos of NASA’s Orion space capsule for deep-space missions to an asteroid, the moon or even Mars. The European Space Agency provides Orion’s service module.

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.

NASA's Orion test article was exposed to launch abort-level acoustics prior to testing its forward bay cover's ability to jettison at the Neil Armstrong Test Facility in Sandusky, Ohio. The cover ...

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 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 ...

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 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 ...

NASA's Artemis mission is on the right path, as Orion shared its first picture of Earth as it heads to the moon at more than 5,000 miles per hour. The capsule launched at 1:47am ET.

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, ...