New video shows the moment the Orion capsule opened after landing last week. Inside were the Artemis II astronauts who had ...

Apart from pesky issues with the spacecraft’s toilet and waste disposal system, most of the Artemis II mission has proceeded like clockwork. NASA has made few changes to the flight plan since the ...

On September 26, 1960, Orion Samuelson joined WGN Radio. From hosting the WGN Radio Barn Dance to breaking the news to Chicagoans of the JFK assassination. From meeting with government officials and ...

Amid what some call a new space race, the historic journey around the moon tested a spacecraft that had never before been ...

The Orion crew module containing the four Artemis II astronauts splashed down in the Pacific Ocean Friday evening.

As the Artemis II mission comes to a close, watch the livestream of the splashdown expected off the California coast.

The Lockheed Martin Orion is the latest arrival of a human-rated spacecraft slated to take humans beyond the bounds of Low Earth Orbit and close to the surface of another heavenly body. But for all ...

When the Orion spacecraft returned from its first lunar trip on the uncrewed Artemis I mission in 2022, it suffered major damage to the spacecraft’s heat shield coating. That raised the crew safety ...

This is how the four astronauts sleep, use the bathroom and work out during their 10-day mission to the moon and back. Anna Gragert Senior Editor, Health and Home Anna Gragert (she/her/hers) was ...

NASA's Artemis II Orion spacecraft has begun transmitting its first images from deep space, offering a view of Earth from farther away than any crewed mission has traveled since Apollo. The Orion ...

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Fla.—This will be the third time I have observed NASA’s Orion spacecraft take flight. But with this one, for the first time, am I genuinely hopeful about the future of the space ...

From left, astronauts Jeremy Hansen, Christina Koch, Victor Glover, and Reid Wiseman will live in an Orion spacecraft for 10 days as they fly around the moon. Credit: NASA Tired of having too much ...