NASA’s return to crewed lunar flight is now hinging on a slab of material at the bottom of Orion that did not behave the way engineers expected. Instead of a straightforward fix, the agency is ...

On the eve of the first crewed flight of the Artemis program, NASA’s top leadership has zeroed in on a single, unforgiving piece of hardware: the Orion capsule’s heat shield. The final go or no-go ...

NASA's Artemis III mission is shaping up to be NASA's most complex mission in history, coordinating the launch and rendezvous ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Instead, that task will fall to Artemis 4, with Artemis 3 launching sooner with a different mission framework, and with a ...

NASA is preparing for future astronaut landings on the Moon with an unusually ambitious orbital rehearsal. During Artemis III ...

Artemis III will send four astronauts into orbit to test Orion with SpaceX's Starship and Blue Origin's Blue Moon before NASA ...

A view of the Orion spacecraft, the moon and Earth from a camera on one of Orion's solar arrays taken while in distant retrograde orbit around the moon. Credit: NASA KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Fla. — ...

The budget threatens to kill Lunar Gateway and the Mars Sample Return mission, along with phasing out the gigantic SLS rocket and Orion spacecraft. Reading time 3 minutes The U.S. administration is ...

SENAIT GEBREGIORGIS WESH TWO NEWS. NASA’S BUDGET WAS CUT TODAY, AND THE BUDGET WAS CUT BY 25%. AND THAT IS THE PROPOSAL FROM PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP. NOW, IF IT HAPPENS, THE PLAN TO GET BACK TO THE ...

Before Artemis astronauts land on the moon's surface in 2028, NASA will conduct the Artemis III demonstration mission in 2027 ...

For the first time since Apollo 17 in 1972, NASA officially has its hands on a spacecraft expected to fly humans to the moon. Lockheed Martin, prime contractor for the Orion space capsule, transferred ...

In 2017, when President Trump took office the first time, U.S. space policy was adrift. Major projects had run wildly over budget and the goals of the country’s manned space program were fuzzy. No U.S ...