Lockheed beat Boeing Co. and Northrop Grumman Corp. for that job. The current space shuttle design is due to be phased out in 2010, and the new Orion shuttle is scheduled for launch in 2011.

On Thursday, the Orion spacecraft will have its first test flight, marking the return of spacecraft launches in the U.S. The space shuttle Atlantis was launched on July 8, 2011.

Before astronauts venture around the Moon on Artemis II, the agency's first crewed mission to the Moon since Apollo, Mark ...

The Orion spacecraft will build upon over half a century of spaceflight science to carry humanity beyond the limits of the Earth's orbit, back to the moon, and to Mars.

In a photo provided by NASA, the Orion space capsule is seen atop a Delta IV rocket ready for a test launch at the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Wednesday, Dec. 3, 2014, in Cape Canaveral, Fla.

The ultimate goal? In the decades ahead, use Orion to carry people to Mars, and back. The roads leading into the Kennedy Space Center were packed long before dawn.

NASA just released photos of the Orion spacecraft that will send four astronauts around the moon on the Artemis 2 mission, which will lift off no earlier than September 2025.

Boeing has delivered a prototype ablative heatshield for NASA's Orion crew exploration vehicle. Designed to protect the capsule during high-speed re-entry after a lunar direct return, the 5m (16 ...

Lockheed Martin is turning to Microsoft’s mixed reality Hololens smartglasses to help its technicians build NASA's new Orion spacecraft, which could one day help rocket astronauts as far afield ...