NASA's crewed Artemis II mission will have more than astronauts on board. It will also have a small zero gravity indicator ...

NASA concluded that the Artemis II heat shield "can keep the crew safe during the planned mission with changes to Orion's trajectory as it enters Earth's atmosphere.” While some might find the ...

NASA Administrator Bill Nelson on Thursday revealed that due to an issue with the heat shield on NASA's Orion capsule discovered during the 2022 Artemis 1 test mission, the Artemis 3 lunar landing ...

NASA and its partners are pressing to speed up the timeline for the Artemis II launch that will fly humans to the moon for the first time in more than 50 years as the program competes with Trump ...

The explosion Thursday night of the SpaceX Starship was a reminder that there’s only rocket right now that NASA says is capable of reaching the moon.

The Artemis I Orion spacecraft is currently undergoing ... to permit Orion to reenter at lunar velocities to test the heat shield. For the Artemis I Orion, in late August 2021, the first of ...

Intuitive Machines said the Athena had enough power to be able to perform some of the scientific objectives for NASA before ...

Orion heat shield features ablative material, called Avcoat. After NASA’s Orion spacecraft was recovered at the conclusion of the Artemis 1 test flight and transported to NASA’s Kennedy Space ...

Firefly Aerospace successfully reached the lunar surface, to be followed in short order by space companies Intuitive Machines ...