10 January 2024
NASA announces delays to astronaut lunar missions
... first Artemis flight test with crew aboard the Orion spacecraft, the mission will test critical environmental control...Space Launch System) rocket, exploration ground systems, and Orion spacecraft, along with the human landing system, next-generation...
19 April 2021
NASA picks SpaceX Human Lunar Lander for its Artemis programme
... Launch System rocket will launch four astronauts aboard the Orion spacecraft for their multi-day journey to lunar orbit....crewed demonstration mission. With NASA’s Space Launch System rocket, Orion spacecraft, HLS, and the Gateway lunar outpost, NASA ...
December 2014
Technology drives space exploration: we won’t make it to Mars without investment
...Later 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 ...
June 2018
Space 2080 a future perspective
... the capture of the first asteroid by the crew of Orion; an event followed by more than four billion spectators in...elements of the station. A 3D printer saved the mission. The Orion spacecraft - a key to future outer space exploration. A lunar tourist...
08 October 2018
A round-up of news from this years IAC
...kilogram. Lockheed Martin, the prime contractor for NASA’s Orion spacecraft announced it was looking for ideas of commercial ... any other commercial endeavours that would fly on one of Orion’s upcoming missions to the Moon and back. Interested parties ...
19 February 2020
Molecular oxygen detected for the first time in another galaxy
... of its discovery beyond the Solar System – one in Orion and the other in the Rho Ophiuchi cloud – and ...to hydrogen, was around 100 times higher than that previously found in Orion. In this particular instance the freely available O2 was thought to be...
