23 January 2026
Back to the Moon with Artemis
... and undocking operations that will be required in lunar orbit on later missions. Orion’s service module will then perform a translunar injection burn to place the spacecraft on a free-return trajectory, looping it around the Moon and automatically...
April 2025
Racing to the Moon
... in space. For the Artemis 2 mission, planned for no earlier than April 2026, the four astronauts of the Orion spacecraft (Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, Christina Koch, Jeremy Hansen) will perform a flyby of the Moon and return...
January 2023
Private space stations and NASA’s effort to re-invent itself
... NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS) rocket with the Orion spacecraft aboard at Launch Pad 39B in November 2022. Lessons ... astronauts (each paying $155 million) travelled on a SpaceX Dragon spacecraft to the ISS for a 17-day mission. As a start-up,...
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...
