NASA’s Orion spacecraft made a close approach to the moon Monday, about 81 miles above the surface, as it maneuvered to enter a lunar orbit. The test flight of the Artemis I mission is a key ...

For Artemis 2 the stage will stop short of delivering Orion on a trajectory to the Moon, leaving the crewed spacecraft in a high Earth orbit ... RPOD state machine diagram. Some of the proposals ...

After launch, Orion and crew will first make a high Earth orbit to checkout the spacecraft’s life support systems and then leave Earth to circumnavigate the Moon. The pressure vessel is the crew ...

A moon spacecraft is one step closer to flying with humans on board in 2025. The Orion spacecraft ... the first Black person to leave low Earth orbit, or LEO), NASA mission specialist Christina ...

NASA said that, during the flyby mission, the Artemis II crew "will take the controls of the Orion spacecraft and periodically fly it manually during the flight around the moon and back." ...

NASA has given reporters a look at a spacecraft and a rocket to be used to orbit the Moon as part of the US-led international lunar exploration program, Artemis. The Orion module and the rocket ...