For those who follow NASA's human spaceflight program, when the Orion spacecraft's heat shield cracked and chipped away ...

NASA identified more than 100 locations where ablative thermal protective material was liberated during its speedy reentry.

NASA is planning to return humankind to the moon for the first time in over five decades. The agency has narrowed its safe ...

NASA has finally shared more details about possible landing zones for Artemis III, humankind's first return to the Moon since ...

Among the issues uncovered by the Nov. 16-Dec. 11 Artemis I flight test was unanticipated charring of the Orion capsule’s ...

In 1969, Apollo 11 astronaut Neil Armstrong stepped onto the moon's surface—a momentous engineering and science feat marked ...

American space agency NASA announced this week nine locations on the Moon that may become the actual landing site for the ...

In late 2022, NASA launched its uncrewed Orion spacecraft around the Moon and back as part of its Artemis I mission, setting ...

Before landing people on the surface of the moon, the Artemis II mission, which is scheduled for launch no earlier than September 2025, will be the first crewed mission to the moon in the Artemis ...

NASA’s first crewed mission around the moon in more than five decades. The agency’s SLS rocket will launch NASA astronauts ...

NASA remains in an ongoing test mode to determine what's behind the ablative thermal protective material that chipped away unexpectedly from the Artemis 1 Orion heat shield during its reentry into ...