Engineers have identified the issue with the Orion spacecraft's heat shield, but NASA isn’t revealing the details yet.

The space agency shared a video (below) showing the Orion capsule being transported to an upgraded vacuum chamber inside the Operations and Checkout Building at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in ...

Artemis 2 will be the first NASA-led Artemis program mission with humans on board. The uncrewed Artemis 1 flew to lunar orbit ...

is essentially Orion's back end. It will provide propulsion, an electricity supply, thermal control, and all the gases and water needed to sustain any humans riding inside the capsule. Fully ...

The Orion spacecraft safely splashed down, and if astronauts had been inside, they would have been fine. However, the spacecraft didn't perform the way engineers predicted, and demonstrating the ...

Orion’s Crew Module area is designed for four astronauts—so a maximum of four sleeping bags. There are shades to go over all six windows of the capsule. It’s capable of supporting astronauts ...

we are gaining valuable insights into how space radiation interacts with the spacecraft’s shielding, the types of radiation ...

“And rightfully so.” What Alexa will be tested for on Artemis I falls into the categories of controlling lights inside the Orion capsule (responding to voice commands), correctly accessing ...

After traveling as far from Earth as any human-rated spacecraft in history, the Orion capsule is set to leave its orbit around the moon and begin to return back to Earth for a splashdown landing ...

We’ve had reason to doubt the September 2025 launch date for this mission, the first crewed flight into deep space in more than five decades, for awhile now.