18 March 2022
Rocket roll time for NASA’s new Moonshot
...week as the agency’s Space Launch System (SLS) rocket with Orion spacecraft atop arrived at Launch Pad 39B in preparation for a final test...for human missions to Mars. SLS and NASA’s Orion spacecraft, along with the human landing system and the Gateway...
02 October 2019
First look at China's new spacecraft capable of deep-space travel
... and other deep-space destinations. Looking a lot like the crew and service module from NASA’s Orion spacecraft which the US agency hope will carry their astronauts to the Gateway ahead of lunar surface missions beginning...
19 March 2021
NASA conducts successful test of its massive SLS Moon rocket
... test, known as a hot fire, is a critical milestone ahead of the agency’s Artemis I mission, which will send an uncrewed Orion spacecraft on a test flight around the Moon and back to Earth, paving the way for future Artemis missions...
November 2017
Radiation protection for space colonists and travellers
... a cascade of radiation particles and photons, including neutrons. Active radiation shielding using 6+1 expansion coil architecture. The Orion spacecraft will use the mass that is already on board to protect the crew of long-distance missions to Mars...
19 April 2021
NASA picks SpaceX Human Lunar Lander for its Artemis programme
... on a regularly recurring basis beyond the initial crewed demonstration mission. With NASA’s Space Launch System rocket, Orion spacecraft, HLS, and the Gateway lunar outpost, NASA and its commercial and international partners are returning...
December 2014
Technology drives space exploration: we won’t make it to Mars without investment
... this year, NASA will launch the first test flight of the Orion spacecraft. We are building the rocket that will carry us out into ... With the Space Launch System heavy lift rocket and Orion spacecraft coming online soon, the next great leaps in space...
