The Orion spacecraft was previously known as the Crew Exploration Vehicle and was designed as a replacement for the space shuttle, which is set to be retired in 2010. The new name was originally ...

CAPE CANAVERAL AIR FORCESTATION - In a test reminiscent of the Apollo days, pararescue jumpers inwetsuits attached inflatable rings around a mockup of NASA's next spacecraft. In the first ...

called Orion, is also in development, but NASA's current plans are to use it primarily as an escape ship for the International Space Station. So why hasn't NASA already built a "Space Shuttle 2 ...

WASHINGTON — NASA expects to decide sometime in 2008 whether the Orion Crew Exploration Vehicle, the agency’s space shuttle replacement, will typically splash down off the California coast or ...

President Donald Trump’s proposed budget looks to end the Space Launch System rocket, Orion spacecraft and Gateway space station that are central to NASA’s existing Artemis program — ...

NASA’s Space Shuttle operated in low-Earth orbit for 30 years before its retirement in 2011. However, the US space agency’s replacement for this vehicle, Orion, returned to the conical capsule ...

The Space Launch System was initially conceived in 2011 as the Space ... are other ways to get Orion to the Moon. If SLS is canceled, there isn't a straightforward replacement.

NASA astronauts Christina Koch, Victor Glover, and Reid Wiseman, along with Canadian Space Agency astronaut Jeremy Hansen, got up close and personal with the Orion spacecraft during a visit to the ...

WASHINGTON — In a major turnaround, the Obama administration intends this week to order a review of the spacecraft program that NASA had hoped would one day replace the space shuttle ...

Those RS-25 engines, which NASA decided to refurbish and use as a cost-saving measure, are left over from the space-shuttle program. Building a new launch vehicle with obsolete technology is ...

Lockheed Martin handed off the Orion spacecraft for NASA’s Artemis II mission that looks to fly four astronauts around the moon no later than April 2026.

When a 10-year-old Victor Glover first saw the launch of a space shuttle on television ... time anyone will travel into space aboard the Orion spacecraft. The mission invites comparisons to ...