Two years after the groundbreaking Artemis 1 mission, the space capsule that journeyed around the moon is back at NASA's Neil Armstrong test facility in Sandusky for rigorous testing. This capsule ...

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The Orion spacecraft, which will carry four astronauts around the moon on the Artemis 2 mission, recently reentered an altitude chamber at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Orion ...

A tiny spot at first, it gradually grew to a round circle falling at a great speed from the fringes of space. It was NASA’s Orion capsule, which would soon end the 25-day Artemis I mission ...

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This mission, Artemis I ... shield is critical to a space exploration mission. To understand what exactly happened to Orion, let’s rewind the story. As the capsule reentered Earth’s atmosphere ...

The Orion capsule, shown here, and super-expensive Space Launch System rocket are produced under ... “Your question is are ...

After the first dive, Orion bounced back into space in ... saw on the capsule after it splashed down. In a Dec. 5, 2024, press conference, NASA officials announced that the Artemis II mission ...

Orion's reentry followed a sharply angled trajectory, during which the capsule fell at ... heat shield is critical to a space exploration mission. A view of the Artemis 1 Orion spacecraft as ...