Re-entry and splashdown were the final major objectives of the Artemis 1 test flight, giving engineers confidence the spacecraft's 16.5-foot-wide Apollo ... to stabilize the capsule in light ...

BENGALURU: Isro astronaut Group Captain Angad Pratap and Assistant Professor Jishnu Keshavan from IISc, are in the final ...

The crew of Apollo 8 had a lot of things on their ... by attempting what flight engineers call a “skip entry.” When the Orion capsule enters the 24 km-wide keyhole in the atmosphere it will ...

America’s newest space heroes ended man’s greatest and most dangerous space adventure when their sturdy six-ton spaceship ...

While their capsule pitched in ... Astronaut recovery during Apollo 11 was like a highly choreographed fishing trip, albeit one involving high-stakes re-entry calculations and weather concerns.

The capsule intentionally skipped like a stone ... round trip to the moon at 12:40 p.m. EST this afternoon (Dec. 11). The "textbook entry" of the spacecraft, which can hold six crewmembers ...

In one especially hairy moment, Buzz Aldrin spotted an anomaly that could have killed not only the entire crew of Apollo 11 ... the Command Module ready for re-entry. The last thing you want ...

CAPE KENNEDY -- America's first three Apollo astronauts died only 218 feet off the ground Friday night in a blazing explosion inside their space capsule atop its launch pad. An electrical spark ...

April 21 (UPI) --SpaceX launched its Bandwagon-3 mission into orbit Monday night from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida, with more satellites on board and a re-entry capsule that will ...