4. It’s only been tested in orbit once before Orion had its first and only orbital test flight in 2014 when it launched from Florida on a Delta IV Heavy rocket and flew two orbits around Earth.

Among the issues uncovered by the Nov. 16-Dec. 11 Artemis I flight test was unanticipated charring of the Orion capsule’s ...

The Delta IV Heavy rocket is remembered for its transportation of not only the NASA Parker Solar Probe in 2018, but the first orbital test flight of the Orion crew capsule in 2014. It was following ...

During normal mission operations, the crew will not operate the hatches—the ground systems team at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida will assist the crew into Orion at the launch pad ...

On Monday, NASA had planned to attempt the first test flight of the Space Launch System (SLS), a powerful megarocket that will launch the Orion spacecraft. This is the Artemis I mission ...

SpaceX's Jensen said that after a February test flight, Starship will need to go ... the agency's Space Launch System rocket and the Orion spacecraft. Originally, that mission was meant to take ...

In late 2022, NASA launched its uncrewed Orion spacecraft around the Moon and back as part of its Artemis I mission, setting ...

NASA identified more than 100 locations where ablative thermal protective material was liberated during its speedy reentry.

The splashdown is scheduled for December 11. Though no astronauts are aboard Orion this Artemis I test flight, scientists will assess how future astronauts will experience the stresses of space by ...

Orion was a big name in telescopes for many years. Their parent company also owned Meade and Coronado, both well-known optical brands. A recent video from [Reflactor] brought it to our attention ...

In 1969, Apollo 11 astronaut Neil Armstrong stepped onto the moon's surface—a momentous engineering and science feat marked ...

To be fair, the Snap Spectacles also featured a collaborative demo involving finger painting when I tried out those AR glasses prior to my Orion test drive. But I don't think it's unfair to Snap ...