Orion Multi-Purpose Crew Vehicle

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Artemis
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Orion Multi-Purpose Crew Vehicle
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Engineers, technicians, mission planners, and the four astronauts set to fly around the Moon next year on Artemis II, NASA’s first crewed Artemis mission, are rapidly progressing toward launch. At the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, teams are working around the clock to move into integration and final testing of all SLS (Space Launch […]
Posted May 6, 2025
Artemis 2
Christina H. Koch
G. Reid Wiseman
Kennedy Space Center
Orion Multi-Purpose Crew Vehicle
Space Launch System (SLS)
Victor J. Glover
Technicians with NASA and Lockheed Martin fitted three spacecraft adapter jettison fairing panels onto the service module of the agency’s Orion’s spacecraft. The operation completed on Wednesday, March 19, 2025, inside the Neil A. Armstrong Operations and Checkout Building at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
Posted March 21, 2025
Artemis 2
Kennedy Space Center
Missions
Orion Multi-Purpose Crew Vehicle
Technicians with ESA (European Space Agency) and Airbus installed the four solar array wings on NASA’s Orion spacecraft for Artemis II on March 3. The solar array wings, attached to the service module, deploy after Orion reaches space to power the spacecraft.
Posted March 6, 2025
Johnson Space Center
Orion Multi-Purpose Crew Vehicle
Orion Program
People of Johnson
The National Society of Professional Engineers recently named Debbie Korth, Orion deputy program manager at Johnson Space Center, as NASA’s 2025 Engineer of the Year. Korth was recognized during an award ceremony at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C., on Feb. 21, alongside honorees from 17 other federal agencies.
Posted March 4, 2025
Johnson Space Center
Artemis
Missions
NASA Centers & Facilities
Orion Multi-Purpose Crew Vehicle
Orion Program
People of Johnson
Jorge Chong is helping shape the future of human spaceflight, one calculation at a time. As a project manager for TRON (Tracking and Ranging via Optical Navigation) and a guidance, navigation, and control (GNC) test engineer in the Aeroscience and Flight Mechanics Division, he is leading efforts to ensure the Orion spacecraft can navigate deep […]
Posted February 20, 2025
Johnson Space Center
Artemis
General
Missions
NASA Centers & Facilities
Orion Multi-Purpose Crew Vehicle
You would not expect to see NASA at a car show—but that’s exactly where Johnson Space Center employees were from Jan. 29 to Feb. 2, 2025, driving the future of space exploration forward.  At the Houston AutoBoative Show, a fusion of the auto and boat show, NASA rolled out its Artemis exhibit at NRG Center […]
Posted February 11, 2025
Orion Multi-Purpose Crew Vehicle
Artemis
Artemis 2
Orion Program
On NASA’s Artemis II test flight, the first crewed mission under the agency’s Artemis campaign, astronauts will take the controls of the Orion spacecraft and periodically fly it manually during the flight around the Moon and back.
Posted January 28, 2025
Glenn Research Center
Artemis
Humans in Space
Orion Multi-Purpose Crew Vehicle
Orion Program
Making the voyage 1.4 million miles around the Moon and back — the farthest a spacecraft built for humans has ever gone — the Orion spacecraft has faced a battery of tests over the years. Though Orion successfully proved its capabilities in the harsh environment of space during the Artemis I mission, Orion’s evaluation did […]
Posted December 17, 2024
Kennedy Space Center
Artemis
Artemis 2
Commercial Crew
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Europa Clipper
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Humans in Space
International Space Station (ISS)
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NOAA (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration)
Northrop Grumman Commercial Resupply
Nova-C (Lander)
Orion Multi-Purpose Crew Vehicle
PACE (Plankton, Aerosol, Cloud, Ocean Ecosystem)
Space Launch System (SLS)
From sending crew members to the International Space Station to launching a spacecraft to Jupiter’s icy moon Europa to determine if it could support life, 2024 was a busy record setting year for NASA and its partners at Kennedy Space Center in Florida. JANUARYFirst Lunar Lander Takes Flight The first flight of NASA’s CLPS (Commercial […]
Posted December 12, 2024
Artemis
Artemis 2
Kennedy Space Center
Missions
NASA Centers & Facilities
Orion Multi-Purpose Crew Vehicle
NASA’s Orion spacecraft for the Artemis II test flight returned to the Final Assembly and System Testing (FAST) cell following completion of the second round of vacuum chamber testing on Dec. 5 inside the Neil A. Armstrong Operations and Checkout Building at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. After returning to the FAST cell, the […]
Posted December 10, 2024
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