In the late 1950s, Project Orion proposed a spacecraft driven by rapid nuclear pulses, a pusher plate, and shock absorbers, with designs ranging from an eight crew ship to a city sized interstellar ...

The U.S. is the only country to have ever sent humans to the moon.

NASA released a selfie taken by the Orion capsule and close-up photos of the moon's crater-marked landscape as the spacecraft continues on the Artemis 1 mission, a 25-and-a-half day journey that will ...

NASA’s Artemis II mission is set to make history as the first crewed lunar flight in decades, with astronauts naming their Orion spacecraft “Integrity.” The crew, led by Commander Reid Wiseman, ...

The Orion spacecraft and Space Launch System rocket have been attached at the hip for the better part of two decades. The big rocket lifts, the smaller spacecraft flies, and Congress keeps the money ...

Orion Integrity spacecraft connected with the SLS rocket, readying for historic crewed journey to the Moon "Integration of SLS and Orion represents a major milestone in our progress on Artemis," said ...

SYDNEY — An agreement to study a private astronaut mission using an Orion spacecraft is one of the first steps by Lockheed Martin in its efforts to offer the spacecraft as a service. At the ...

RAVENSWOOD, W.Va. -- A West Virginia plant is playing a role in NASA's experimental Orion spacecraft. Metals used in the inner structure of the Orion crew capsule were produced at Constellium Rolled ...

Orion Integrity spacecraft connected with the SLS rocket, readying for historic crewed journey to the Moon Lockheed Martin is a global defense technology company driving innovation and advancing ...