10 November 2021
NASA moves human lunar landing mission to 2025
... Orion during the media teleconference. Initially reported to cost $6.7 billion, expenditure for the spacecraft that...occur; Artemis I is a test launch of SLS and an uncrewed Orion, which has now been delayed until at least February 2022, while Artemis...
19 April 2019
Mission to Mars by 2033 not viable says independent report
... to long development programs and ongoing testing, SLS and Orion present low technology risks to a Mars orbital mission.’ ... the development and operation of the core architectural elements I.e the Orion, SLS, the Gateway, and the DST, between FY 2019 ...
11 March 2020
NASA faces up to huge cost overruns for its SLS heavy-lift rocket
... in the OIG report. Expendable SLS rockets are NASA’s plan for launching heavy payloads, especially the Orion capsule intended to carry astronauts to the Moon. SLS “represents the largest development of space flight capabilities NASA...
April 2025
Lego’s tribute to NASA’s SLS and Artemis
... (SLS). So far, the SLS has conducted a single launch, for the Artemis I mission, which placed an uncrewed Orion spacecraft on a 25-day loop around the Moon in November 2022. The effort required to complete such a model is significant: fitting...
January 2018
SLS ushers transformation of deep space exploration
... (TLI). The crew configuration of the Block 1B vehicle will carry up to an additional 10 tons of payload along with the Orion spacecraft. The Block 2 configuration will increase that performance to more than 130 metric tons to LEO, and at least...
02 April 2026
NASA astronauts launch on lunar flyby mission
... Pad 39B at the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida at 6:35 pm. EDT on 1 April, sending four astronauts aboard the Orion spacecraft on a planned test flight around the Moon and back. “Today’s launch marks a defining moment for our...
