See footage Orion Spacecraft, moon and Earth shortly before its "outbound powered flyby burn". Orion was less than 2000 miles ...
NASA is preparing the Orion spacecraft for its first crewed flight around the moon. Here's how astronauts will fly it.
In the late 1950s Dyson worked on Project Orion, which aimed to build a manned spacecraft that could go to Mars and the moons of Saturn. Instead of using nuclear reactors to spew superheated ...
See the epic view of the moon and Earth captured by the Orion spacecraft ahead of its outbound powered flyby. Credit: NASA / ...
While this latest test doesn’t make nuclear-powered rocket engines viable just yet, it’s an important step on the journey.