For Artemis II, Orion will not use a “skip” reentry method, which sees the capsule skim the atmosphere before committing to a full reentry. Instead, Wiseman explained that Orion will aim for a lofted ...

The acceleration of nuclear development is part of the Trump administration’s efforts to focus NASA on human spaceflight. A ...

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 ...

In a further indication of Congress' position on the SLS and Orion programs, lawmakers set aside more than $4 billion for the ...

By eventually eliminating the SLS rocket and Orion, officials suggest an annual savings of $879 million. To date, NASA's SLS has launched once on an uncrewed mission back in late 2022.

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 ...

Released in May, the White House budget proposal called for slashing NASA agency-wide funding by $6 billion, including phasing out the "grossly expensive and delayed" Space Launch System rocket-Orion ...

Jacobs Engineering Group (NYSE:JEC) has received a $40.3 million task order from NASA‘s Johnson Space Center to carry out manned flight qualification tests on the agency’s Orion space capsule ...

The days of NASA's Space Launch System moon rocket and Orion space capsule may be limited, as a White House budget proposal for the space agency aims to phase out the overbudget SLS after just two ...

Almost 4,000 NASA employees have volunteered to leave their positions through two Trump administration separation programs.