NASA has started testing the Orion spacecraft that will take four astronauts on a voyage around the moon as part of the ...

NASA integrated the Artemis II Orion stage adapter with the rest of the SLS (Space Launch System) rocket on Wednesday in the Vehicle Assembly Building at the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

NASA integrates Orion stage adapter with Artemis II rocket, advancing plans for the first crewed lunar mission.

The Orion is not a fixed architecture, he added. Originally designed to fly crews to the ISS, the spacecraft’s current ...

The flight will also mark the farthest trip by humans into deep space, and will travel as many as 9,000 miles beyond the Moon ...

NASA had already said that it wanted to launch the mission no later than the end of April 2026, and earlier this year touted the possibility of a February 2026 launch. To space fans’ delight, a top ...

NASA's Artemis II astronauts will embark on the first crewed U.S. mission to the moon in half a century. It could launch ...

NASA has selected Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, and Christina Koch, and CSA (Canadian Space Agency) astronaut Jeremy Hansen as the crew for the Artemis 2 mission. They are scheduled to launch no ...

NASA's Artemis II mission, slated for launch on February 5, 2026, will send astronauts around the Moon in the Orion spacecraft, now named "Integrity." This ten-day journey aims to test Orion's systems ...

An agreement to study a private astronaut mission using an Orion spacecraft is a step by Lockheed Martin in efforts to offer the spacecraft as a service.

The four astronauts set to climb aboard the first Orion spacecraft to fly humans have already given it a name. In a Wednesday press conference from Houston, Artemis II commander and NASA astronaut ...