In the late 1950s, Project Orion proposed a spacecraft driven by rapid nuclear pulses, a pusher plate, and shock absorbers, with designs ranging from an eight crew ship to a city sized interstellar ...

NASA released a selfie taken by the Orion capsule and close-up photos of the moon's crater-marked landscape as the spacecraft continues on the Artemis 1 mission, a 25-and-a-half day journey that will ...

The Orion spacecraft and Space Launch System rocket have been attached at the hip for the better part of two decades. The big rocket lifts, the smaller spacecraft flies, and Congress keeps the money ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Orion spacecraft undergoes preparations for the NASA Artemis II mission at the Neil Armstrong Operations and Checkout Building ...

NASA's quest to send astronauts out into the solar system begins this week with a two-laps-around-Earth test flight. The new Orion spacecraft is not going to Mars just yet; Thursday's debut will be ...

Orion Integrity spacecraft connected with the SLS rocket, readying for historic crewed journey to the Moon "Integration of SLS and Orion represents a major milestone in our progress on Artemis," said ...

NASA’s Artemis 2 mission is one step closer to its ambitious goal of sending astronauts around the Moon. According to recent updates from NASA, the Orion spacecraft, which will be at the heart of the ...

The creator of the Orion capsule, the only spacecraft now capable of reaching lunar orbit, is set to open Moon treks to spacefarers worldwide. Shown here are U.S. Navy divers helping recover the Orion ...

With shiny new next-generation spacecraft come the complex systems required to track their technologically advanced systems. When it comes to NASA's Orion spacecraft, that need is a whole extra room ...

NASA’s Artemis program returns humans to the Moon by April 2026. Behind the headlines, a race is underway: who captures ...

With launch potentially just three weeks away, the agency is working tirelessly to get the SLS rocket, Orion spacecraft, and the Artemis 2 crew ready for liftoff. Reading time 3 minutes It’s official: ...