NASA is setting up a high-tech simulator, made by Lockheed Martin, to teach astronauts how to operate the Orion capsule during planned moon missions. Weak funding from Congress has cast doubt over ...

The simulator is not equipped with parachutes ... and what we did was we picked apart that in-flight profile more,” NASA Orion Program Manager Mark Kirasich said. “I’ll give you a ...

NASA is preparing the Orion spacecraft for its first crewed flight around the moon. Here's how astronauts will fly it.

On NASA's Artemis II test flight, the first crewed mission under the agency's Artemis campaign, astronauts will take the ...

Astronauts will test drive NASA's Orion spacecraft for the first time ... "There are always differences between a ground simulation and what an actual spacecraft will fly like in space," said ...

It's meant as a test: Astronauts on the ISS will test the toilet out before NASA installs an upgraded version on its Orion spaceship, which is slated to fly a crew to the moon as early as 2023.

To understand the cause of damage to the first Orion flight, NASA conducted over 100 tests ... reducing the risk of overheating. The Arc Jet simulation of the event proved that between the dips ...

Following the successful July Ascent Abort-2 (AA-2) test of the Launch Abort System (LAS) for NASA’s Orion crewed spacecraft ... the LAS from the Crew Module simulator. (Photo Caption: The ...

The Artemis 2 astronauts inspect their Orion spacecraft. Credit: NASA Since the recent presidential election, there’s been a flurry of speculation about the future of NASA’s Moon to Mars plans ...

Photo: NASA/Associated Press NASA’s Orion spacecraft made a close approach to the moon Monday, about 81 miles above the surface, as it maneuvered to enter a lunar orbit.