NASA’s Orion crew module recently reached a significant milestone in preparations for the Artemis 2 mission, the first crewed flight to the moon since Apollo. Engineers successfully conducted a ...

As NASA continues to analyze and refine the profile for the Exploration Mission-1 (EM-1) test flight, more information about the multi-week mission is beginning to be detailed. The Orion ...

O n NASA's Artemis II test flight, the first crewed mission under the agency's Artemis campaign, astronauts will take the controls of the Orion spacecraft and periodically fly it manually during ...

Once the Orion flight test article and the ATB were physically mated, all the other connections were completed and checked out during a stormy month of June. “That was surprising that [in] May ...

Technicians move the Orion spacecraft for NASA's Artemis II test flight out of the Neil A. Armstrong Operations and Checkout ...

At Norfolk Naval Base, the Orion test replica was tethered inside the ... ton vehicle on its maiden voyage—an unmanned, four-hour flight twice around the Earth, with an apogee of 3,671 miles ...

The Orion Artemis II spacecraft has been supplied to NASA for its upcoming manned mission around the Moon, to test systems ...

Image source, EPA/AIRBUS DEFENCE AND SPACE Image caption, Artist's impression of the Orion space capsule in orbit The plan is for Orion to go twice around Earth and rise to a height of almost 6,000km.

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South Korea will fly a shoebox-size cube satellite on an Artemis II test flight in April 2026 in preparation for missions to ...

NASA's Artemis II Orion Spacecraft sits in the Operations and Checkout Building at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida on August 8, 2023. File Photo by Joe Marino/UPI ...