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 ...

NASA engineers tested the functionality of Orion's forward bay cover, which is the last component of the spacecraft that must be ejected before parachutes deploy to land.

The Orion Environmental Test Article (ETA) was subjected to launch abort-level acoustics inside the Reverberant Acoustic Test Facility, the world’s most powerful spacecraft acoustic chamber.

NASA’s 322-foot rocket system did its job early Wednesday, propelling the Orion spacecraft into orbit a few minutes after lifting off from Kennedy Space Center. Orion successfully separated from ...

Orion, the next spacecraft to fly humans around the moon, has been delivered to NASA for prelaunch preparations ahead of Artemis 2's planned 2026 liftoff.

Orion traveled roughly 1.3 million miles (2 million kilometers) during this mission on a path that swung out to a distant lunar orbit, carrying the capsule farther than any spacecraft designed to ...

Lockheed Martin handed off the Orion spacecraft for NASA’s Artemis II mission that looks to fly four astronauts around the moon no later than April 2026.

Now that they have the Orion, NASA's people will look to load propellants, water, and oxygen on board, and they'll soon move to get the ship ready for launch on top of the Space Launch System (SLS ...

The first orbital space flight of an Orion capsule is expected in 2013, said John Karas, vice president and general manager for human space flight for Lockheed Martin Space Systems Co.

NASA engineers tested the functionality of Orion's forward bay cover, which is the last component of the spacecraft that must be ejected before parachutes deploy to land.

NASA engineers tested the functionality of Orion's forward bay cover, which is the last component of the spacecraft that must be ejected before parachutes deploy to land.