NASA’s Orion spacecraft is on the move! Recently transported to the Multi-Payload Processing Facility, it’s now being fueled ...

NASA tested a boilerplate version of the Orion spacecraft in December 2014, launching it to an altitude of nearly 6,000 km. From that orbit Orion reentered Earth's atmosphere at a velocity of 9 km/s.

The space agency re-acquired the spacecraft’s signal when Orion came out from behind the moon. Once again, Orion shared views of the “pale blue dot” of Earth from about 230,000 miles away.

NASA’s Artemis I mission has set an out-of-this-world record for space travel, as its Orion capsule traveled “farther than any other spacecraft built for humans.” The unmanned spacecraft ...

To enter a distant retrograde orbit, Orion will perform a second burn of its main engine on Friday, November 25. The spacecraft is due to splash down in the Pacific Ocean on December 11.

The Orion’s successful homecoming on December 11 suggests that the hardware performed as expected, though NASA engineers are now checking data from the Orion spacecraft to confirm the all of the ...

NASA's Orion space capsule breaks record on moon mission 02:02. NASA's unpiloted Orion moonship, sailing smoothly toward a remote lunar orbit after a spectacular low-altitude flyby Monday, is ...

It was two years ago on December 11 when NASA’s Orion spacecraft splashed down in the Pacific Ocean west of Mexico’s Baja California in a mission that effectively marked the launch of the ...

NASA’s Space Launch System blasted off on Wednesday, sending the uncrewed Orion spacecraft on a 25-day journey to the Moon and back. Orion should reach its destination early next week, ...

Geyer died in December 2021, in Houston, at the age of 63, after battling pancreatic cancer, NASA said, adding that he was the spacecraft's first program manager and had helped lead Orion to its ...

The Artemis I mission spacecraft Orion has completed its parachute-assisted splashdown off the coast of Mexico. On Sunday, Orion's heat shield successfully withstood the extreme heat of re-entry ...

NASA’s Orion passenger space capsule has passed a huge test, splashing down intact in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of Mexico on December 11. The successful splashdown caps the complex and ...