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The Artemis 3 Orion capsule under construction at the Kennedy Space Center. The Artemis 3 mission in the late 2025-2026 timeframe, will carry the next man and the first woman to walk on the moon ...
“ [For] Artemis III, there are several things driving [production],” Debbie Korth, Orion Deputy Program Manager for NASA, said during a Aug. 8 media event at KSC.
The four astronauts just named to the Artemis II mission are the first crew who will test-drive the Orion moonship in space. The 25-day maiden voyage of the empty spacecraft last November pushed ...
Orion and its four-person crew are scheduled to launch atop NASA's Space Launch System (SLS) rocket on Artemis 2 in late 2024. The mission will carry them into deep space around the moon, farther ...
The Artemis program, set to take humans back to the lunar surface, successfully completed its first major mission by testing Orion—NASA’s newest human-rated spacecraft.
The Artemis I mission spacecraft Orion has completed its parachute-assisted splashdown off the coast of Mexico. On Sunday, Orion's heat shield successfully withstood the extreme heat of re-entry ...
The Artemis 1 Orion spacecraft catches a last glimpse of Earth as a full disc before splashdown on Dec. 1, 2022. (Image credit: NASA Television) ...
An uncrewed Orion capsule successfully splashed down in the Pacific Ocean Sunday, Dec. 11, at 12:39 p.m. ET concluding NASA's Artemis I moon mission.