Intuitive Machines stock surges 53% after winning $4.82 billion NASA contract for lunar relay satellites and communication ...

NASA's Orion spacecraft will need to protect astronauts from dangerous radiation when they visit the moon in the upcoming Artemis missions.

Rather than building an obsolescent, obscenely-over-budget jumbo rocket, NASA should turn to building truly innovative space ...

Finally, NASA is preparing to send people back to the moon on ... before placing crew on the Artemis II mission,” according to the audit. The Orion capsule’s heat shield, for instance, broke down ...

After 93 days on orbit, Starliner is coming home. The spacecraft is a “go” for undocking from the International Space Station at 6:04 p.m. EST, though it will be leaving its two-person crew ...

7 after fully undocking from the International Space Station during the evening of Sept. 6. NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams launched on Crew Flight Test, the first human launch with ...

NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni ... the architecture is very similar. There's a forward heat shield on Boeing and on Orion, and they're both removed by parachutes. The architecture is ...

NASA’s Pegasus barge is now at the Kennedy ... including an ongoing analysis of the Orion heat shield. Material unexpectedly chipped away during the uncrewed Artemis I flight test.

NASA’s Pegasus barge is now at the Kennedy ... They will be joined by Canadian astronaut Jeremy Hansen aboard the Orion spacecraft. Read: WATCH: SpaceX launches Falcon 9 rocket from Cape ...

The choice concerns the Orion spacecraft's heat shield and whether NASA will make any changes before the Artemis II mission that will make a lunar flyby. Although Starliner has garnered a lot of ...

Is it enough time to allow the heat shield to cool sufficiently that it became even more brittle and prone to damage from additional heating? And we all thought the decision on Starliner was ...