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.

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 ...

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.

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.

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.

The Orion Crew Module, also known as the Orion Environmental Test Article (ETA), underwent a jettison test of its forward bay cover at NASA’s Neil Armstrong Test Facility in Sandusky, Ohio.

NASA, the U.S. Navy and others put the Orion capsule to the test, simulating a splashdown in the Pacific Ocean as they gear up for the Artemis II mission next year.

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.