From 1958 to 1965, the U.S. government sponsored the Orion program, which developed the idea of nuclear pulse propulsion. This concept was to power spacecraft by dropping nuclear bombs and using the ...

NASA put its Orion spacecraft to the test ahead of its planned journey to the Moon. The space agency simulated the extreme conditions the capsule may experience during a launch abort scenario when it ...

HOUSTON — NASA’s Orion project will pursue an aggressive strategy to reduce the mass of the four-person capsule that serves as a centerpiece of U.S. efforts to develop a new human deep space ...