02 April 2020
Thousands Apply to Join NASA’s Artemis Generation, #BeAnAstronaut
... at home and prepare us for the Moon and Mars. This new class also may launch aboard NASA’s powerful new Space Launch System rocket and Orion spacecraft for Artemis missions to the Moon. Beginning in 2024, NASA will...
24 August 2022
Moon mission's human-rated European Service Module is giant leap for ESA
... in delivering the European Service Module (ESM) - which will provide vital propulsion and life supports systems - as “modest” compared to NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS) rocket and Orion crew vehicle. “Nevertheless, this will be the first time NASA...
29 August 2022
Lift-off draws close for NASA’s spectacular lunar return mission
NASA’s ‘imaginatively’ named Space Launch System (SLS) rocket that can ferry humans to and from the Moon for the first time in 50 years is on launch pad 39B this morning (Monday) at Kennedy Space Center in Florida. A two-hour launch window for today...
19 April 2021
NASA picks SpaceX Human Lunar Lander for its Artemis programme
... Artemis program includes landing the first person of colour on the lunar surface. The agency’s powerful Space Launch System rocket will launch four astronauts aboard the Orion spacecraft for their multi-day journey to lunar orbit. There...
01 December 2014
Orion service module contract for Airbus
... in uncrewed mode, during the EFT-1 test flight out to 5,800 km beyond low-Earth orbit. An Orion launch on the heavy lift Space Launch System (SLS) rocket will occur in 2017. The SLS has Boeing as its main contractor, with...
22 July 2021
Factory of the future for Orion capsules
... Processing Facility to the Launch Abort System Facility on July 10 for Orion’s emergency launch-abort system to be added. Next, at KSC’s Vertical Assembly Facility, Orion will be placed atop NASA’s first Space Launch System rocket. Bill Nelson...
