EM-1 will be the first flight of Orion’s European Service Module, also pairing it with the Crew Module for the first time, with hundreds of test objectives to be evaluated during the mission.

In the background, the Artemis 1 Orion spacecraft sits in the FAST cell where the Crew Module and Service Module were mated a few days earlier.) “We’ve been doing a lot of testing, a bunch of ...

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Orion is made of three main sections. From the left: (1) The service module, from the European Space ... [+] Agency, fuels and propels the spacecraft. (2) The crew module is the habitat for up to ...

The Orion spacecraft was designed to help mitigate ... that are most shielded – such as the central part of the crew module – ...

where they practiced opening and closing an Orion crew module side hatch model to help demonstrate its reliability and ...

As per the design specifications, the Orion Service Module is able to provide 1.8 km/s of delta-v ... it would have allowed the crew to essentially “drift” home. These are interesting thought ...

Engineers have identified the issue with the Orion spacecraft's heat shield, but NASA isn’t revealing the details yet.

Seeing power flow to Orion was a large milestone following the moment when the American-made crew module and European Service ... "During liftoff, 400,000 gallons (1.5 million liters) of water ...

NASA identified more than 100 locations where ablative thermal protective material was liberated during its speedy reentry.

The four men are called the Axiom-1 crew. Axiom is a commercial spaceflight company that hopes to build its own space station in the next few years. The crew lifted away from Florida's Kennedy ...

While on holiday, a young couple's car suddenly breaks down in an insular rural community, so they take refuge in a remote cabin awaiting repairs. Yet when a trio of masked strangers begins ...