NASA Progresses Toward Crewed Moon Mission with Spacecraft, Rocket Milestones
Technicians move the Orion spacecraft for NASA’s Artemis II test flight out of the Neil A. Armstrong Operations and Checkout Building to the Multi-Payload Processing...
Category : Orion Multi-Purpose Crew Vehicle
NASA’s First Flight With Crew Important Step on Long-term Return to the Moon, Missions to Mars
NASA astronauts (left to right) Christina Koch, Victor Glover, Reid Wiseman, Canadian Space Agency Astronaut Jeremy Hansen. Credit: NASA/Josh Valcarcel The Artemis II test flight...
NASA Trains for Orion Water Recovery Ahead of Artemis II Launch
4 min read Preparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) The Crew Module Test Article (CMTA), a full scale mockup of the Orion spacecraft,...
NASA’s Artemis II Orion Service Module Buttoned Up for Launch
Technicians with NASA and Lockheed Martin fitted three spacecraft adapter jettison fairing panels onto the service module of the agency’s Orion’s spacecraft. The operation completed...
Engineers Install Orion Solar Array Wings for Artemis II
Technicians with ESA (European Space Agency) and Airbus installed the four solar array wings on NASA’s Orion spacecraft for Artemis II on March 3. The...
How to Fly NASA’s Orion Spacecraft
During the Artemis II mission to the Moon, NASA astronauts Reid Wiseman and Victor Glover will take control and manually fly Orion for the first...
NASA’s Orion Spacecraft Gets Lift on Earth
Crane operator Rebekah Tolatovicz, a shift mechanical technician lead for Artic Slope Regional Corporation at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, operates a 30-ton crane...
Orion on the Rise
NASA/Radislav Sinyak Technicians lift NASA’s Orion spacecraft out of the Final Assembly and System Testing cell on June 28, 2024. The integrated spacecraft, which will...
What is 3D-MAT?
A thermal protection material for the Artemis Generation On the 19th day of the Artemis I mission, the Moon grows larger in frame as Orion...
Altitude Chamber Gets Upgrade for Artemis II, Spacecraft Testing Begins
Before the Orion spacecraft is stacked atop NASA’s powerful SLS (Space Launch System) rocket ahead of the Artemis II mission, engineers will put it through...
