HUNTSVILLE, AL -- NASA engineers continue to put the replacement for the space shuttle - the Orion Crew Exploration Vehicle - through its paces with water floatation and moisture resistance tests ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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.

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 ...

The alternatives to space planes like the shuttle are crew modules like the Apollo Command Module, the NASA Orion Spacecraft ...

“With radiation monitors placed throughout the Orion capsule, we are gaining valuable insights into how space radiation interacts with the spacecraft’s shielding, the types of radiation that ...

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 ...