NASA opens a new round of testing on the space shuttle replacement the Orion Crew Exploration Vehicle, to be used with the Marshall Space Flight Center-developed Ares I rocket, in an effort to ...

The first crew slated to fly in NASA’s Orion spacecraft during the Artemis II mission around the Moon early next year entered their spacecraft for a multi-day training at the agency’s Kennedy Space ...

Orion has been designed to withstand space radiation and has a “storm shelter” inside it where a crew could be kept safe from high levels of radiation caused by a solar particle event. In this ...

EDWARDS, Calif. – The Orion crew module that will be used for the first launch abort system Pad Abort 1 flight test is scheduled to depart NASA’s Dryden Flight Research Center Aug. 19 f… ...

In addition to the sensors on the manikin and seat, Campos is wearing a first-generation Orion Crew Survival System pressure suit – a spacesuit astronauts will wear during launch, entry, and ...

A view of Moonikin “Campos” secured in a seat inside the Artemis I Orion crew module atop the Space Launch System rocket in High Bay 3 of the Vehicle Assembly Building at NASA’s Kennedy ...

— NASA Artemis (@NASAArtemis) November 28, 2022 Orion, as an uncrewed crew-rated vehicle, smashed the 52-year-old distance record set during Apollo 13 on Saturday (November 26) at 7:42 a.m. ET.