March 7 (UPI) --NASA on Friday rolled out the new Artemis II Orion spacecraft and twin Space Launch System solid rocket boosters that will carry astronauts in the first crewed Artemis mission around ...

In about two weeks, they will be joined by the Space Launch System Core Stage rocket. NASA’s Orion program manager Howard Hu said that the Orion will be the first space capsule in 50 years that ...

Unlike Apollo—which used a single spacecraft comprising a mothership and lunar lander—Artemis III will see Orion dock with ...

March 7 (UPI) --NASA on Friday rolled out the new Artemis II Orion spacecraft and twin Space Launch System solid rocket ...

ditching the costly Space Launch System rocket, which is not reusable, and pitching the Orion capsule as a candidate for Mars travel in addition to its moon duties. All of this and more may be ...

The astronauts will launch atop NASA's Space Launch System rocket and fly to the moon aboard a Lockheed Martin-built Orion capsule. The crew will transfer to the waiting Starship for the descent ...

So far, the consequences of these failures have not been lethal. But space remains a difficult, hazardous game. Reentering ...

NASA selected Lunar Trailblazer for development in 2019 along with two other missions: Janus, a mission to send twin spacecraft to fly by binary asteroids; and Escape and Plasma Acceleration and ...

Technicians with NASA and Lockheed Martin fitted three spacecraft adapter jettison fairing panels onto the service module of the agency’s Orion’s spacecraft. The operation completed on ...