The Orion space capsule, which carried four astronauts on a 10-day mission around the moon, has left San Diego for a ...

This eerie image shows the heat shield following splashdown.

NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman told lawmakers on Monday that SpaceX and Blue Origin, the agency’s two lunar lander ...

Erie native Leah Struchen Deans was at the engineering console in Houston during the Artemis II flight and will help engineer ...

From a precise splashdown to a 694,000-mile journey, here's how Artemis II showed NASA's Moon-to-Mars plan is taking shape.

NASA released a new image of the Artemis II heat shield, taken by U.S. Navy divers moments after the astronauts splashed down ...

Artemis III heat shield update: The Artemis II Orion capsule has returned to Florida after a historic crewed lunar mission, ...

The uncrewed Artemis I return in 2022 surprised engineers with more erosion than expected in the Avcoat ablative layer. That ...

Artemis 3 will evaluate the AxEMU suit in Earth orbit in 2027, a necessary validation step before any astronaut wears it on the lunar surface. That sequencing is deliberate. It is also a reminder of ...

Questions over the suitability of Orion’s heat shield have been answered following Artemis II’s successful splashdown, with a ...

When the Orion spacecraft carrying NASA’s Artemis II crew pierces Earth’s atmosphere on Friday evening, it will be traveling at nearly 25,000 mph. Within minutes, a precisely choreographed sequence of ...

The Artemis II astronauts may have just returned from a successful mission to the moon, but NASA engineers are already ...