"What they’re talking about doing is crazy." The post Space Scientists Wince as Astronauts’ Lives Depend on Artemis 2’s ...

The five astronauts on the Artemis II mission are set to return to Earth on Friday, April 10, after a 10-day trip to the moon ...

When NASA’s Orion capsule splashed down in the Pacific Ocean in December 2022 after its uncrewed Artemis I flight, engineers ...

For those who follow NASA’s human spaceflight program, when the Orion spacecraft’s heat shield cracked and chipped away during atmospheric reentry on the unpiloted Artemis I test flight in late 2022, ...

Reentry is one of the most dangerous aspects of any spaceflight. And Artemis II is going into this part of the journey with a ...

The heat shield on Orion is made of 186 blocks of a special material called AVCOAT, which is designed to both provide insulation against the heat, and to burn off in a controlled, predictable way, ...

The Artemis II astronauts are about to fall to Earth at the fastest speed humans have ever travelled inside a spacecraft with ...

Despite problems during the unpiloted Artemis I reentry, the Artemis II crew is confident their heat shield will protect them ...

Within hours of NASA announcing its decision to fly the Artemis II mission aboard an Orion spacecraft with an unmodified heat shield, critics assailed the space agency, saying it had made the wrong ...

NASA is sending some astronauts on a little trek out of Earth's orbit and around the moon, which is just the start of its current plans to send crewed missions back to the lunar surface. This is an ...

Orion's selfie with Earth and the Moon. Credit: NASA NASA's Orion spacecraft might have successfully traveled to the Moon and back, but its equipment wasn't fully stable throughout the journey. Now, ...