Engineers have identified the issue with the Orion spacecraft's heat shield, but NASA isn’t revealing the details yet.
NASA identified more than 100 locations where ablative thermal protective material was liberated during its speedy reentry.
For those who follow NASA's human spaceflight program, when the Orion spacecraft's heat shield cracked and chipped away ...
Newborn stars are surrounded by disks of gas and dust within which planets are born, known as protoplanetary disks. In the ...
According to Hawkins and Glaze, NASA expects to share more information about Orion's heat shield issue before the end of the ...
In late 2022, NASA launched its uncrewed Orion spacecraft around the Moon and back as part of its Artemis I mission, setting ...
NASA has determined why the Orion heat shield lost more material than expected on the Artemis 1 mission but won’t disclose details until after it completes more tests.
Among the issues uncovered by the Nov. 16-Dec. 11 Artemis I flight test was unanticipated charring of the Orion capsule’s ...
The nine shortlisted sites, which were released by NASA on Monday (Oct. 28), are geologically diverse, and each of them has ...
NASA is planning to return humankind to the moon for the first time in over five decades. The agency has narrowed its safe ...