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 ...

Once fully assembled, the Orion topped SLS will be rolled out to Launch Complex 39B for testing. The Artemis 2 mission is targeted for launch no earlier than April 2026. You can read and see more ...

Get Instant Summarized Text (Gist) The Orion spacecraft for Artemis II has been equipped with four solar array wings by ESA and Airbus. These arrays, each with 15,000 solar cells and nearly 23 ...

Artemis is made up of the Orion capsule built by Lockheed Martin and the SLS rocket, made up of a core stage built by Boeing and solid rocket boosters from Northrop Grumman. A NASA Office of the ...

That happened in 2022 on the Artemis I mission when an uncrewed Orion spacecraft traveled to the moon. For now, NASA is sticking with the pricey SLS as the rocket for its next two Artemis missions ...

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER — NASA has removed the mention of there being a first woman and the first person of color who will land on the moon during the Artemis III mission from its websites.

Artemis II will take four astronauts — Wiseman, Koch, Hansen and pilot Victor Glover — on a 10-day flight test orbiting Earth and the moon. The crew will fly on NASA's Orion spacecraft ...

NASA websites have dropped references to landing the first woman on the moon as part of the goals for its Artemis program. Updated pages as of Friday for the program no longer feature the ...

NASA's Artemis 2 crew is seeking an original idea for their zero-g indicator (ZGI), a stuffed toy or doll that will be suspended from a tether in their Orion spacecraft to signal when they enter ...

By Alan Scherstuhl The multinational, intergenerational jazz quintet Artemis is, as they might say, bubbling. Last fall, it topped Downbeat magazine’s reader’s poll as jazz group of the year ...