Orion is being prepared for its first launch later this year, an uncrewed flight that will take it 3,600 miles above Earth, in a 4.5 hour mission to test the systems critical for future human ...

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 15-foot diameter crewmodule will replace the space shuttle after it is retired in 2010, or soonafter. The Orion is expected to carry Americans back to the moon.

07-07-2010 TECH Space Shuttle Winds Down, Project Orion Winds Up Just two scheduled Space Shuttle flights remain before the most complex machine ever made is grounded, and support companies are now ...

Most of the people that worked on the shuttle are now retired, so those starting the Orion programme didn’t have the shuttle people to advise them. That’s what I’ve been trying to help a bit on.

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.

Orion’s not cleared for lift off just yet. Gusty winds and technical glitches forced NASA to cancel a Thursday test launch of its Orion shuttle, the craft that could one day send man to Mars.

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 ...