December 2014
Asteroid Redirect Mission: preparing for Mars in deep space
... toward the challenging goal of a crewed mission to Mars. In an early use of NASA’s next-generation human spaceflight vehicles, Orion and Space Launch System (SLS), our astronauts will travel to the redirected asteroid in the lunar DRO...
October 2015
Earth independence: new definitions of home on Mars missions and beyond
...the proving ground are already in development. In December 2014, the Orion crew vehicle made its first uncrewed test flight. It reached 15...to Mars. In just a few years, SLS will launch Orion on another uncrewed test flight around the Moon, and then ...
January 2023
Private space stations and NASA’s effort to re-invent itself
... start of the Obama administration a decade ago, one of the key observations was that the giant size of an Orion capsule that could accommodate up to eight astronauts might be reduced to a four-astronaut configuration. Had this suggestion, outlined...
April 2025
Racing to the Moon
... participants in Artemis, and contribute service modules for the Orion deep space capsules, loosely based on the propulsion module...most likely elements to be revisited are the SLS, Orion and Gateway – the very elements European industries are ...
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...Pad 39B, it took 10 hours and 28 minutes for SLS and Orion to reach the launch pad four miles away. The trip began at...
02 October 2019
First look at China's new spacecraft capable of deep-space travel
... a lot like the crew and service module from NASA’s Orion spacecraft which the US agency hope will carry their astronauts ... consists of a crew module and a service module. Like Orion, this will provide the power, propulsion and life support facilities...
