Orion Multi-Purpose Crew Vehicle

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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
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Orion Multi-Purpose Crew Vehicle
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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
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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
Missions
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Common Exploration Systems Development Division
Exploration Systems Development Mission Directorate
Marshall Space Flight Center
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Orion Multi-Purpose Crew Vehicle
Orion Program
Space Launch System (SLS)
Lee esta historia en español aquí. Through the Artemis campaign, NASA will land the next American astronauts and first international astronaut on the South Pole region of the Moon. On Thursday, NASA announced the latest updates to its lunar exploration plans.
Posted December 5, 2024
Artemis
Orion Multi-Purpose Crew Vehicle
Orion Program
After extensive analysis and testing, NASA has identified the technical cause of unexpected char loss across the Artemis I Orion spacecraft’s heat shield.
Posted December 5, 2024
Artemis
Artemis 2
Christina H. Koch
G. Reid Wiseman
Kennedy Space Center
Orion Multi-Purpose Crew Vehicle
Victor J. Glover
Teams lifted NASA’s Orion spacecraft for the Artemis II test flight out of the Final Assembly and System Testing cell and moved it to the altitude chamber to complete further testing on Nov. 6 inside the Neil A. Armstrong Operations and Checkout building at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Engineers returned the spacecraft to […]
Posted November 12, 2024
Artemis
Artemis 2
Orion Multi-Purpose Crew Vehicle
Orion Program
Artemis II crew members recently traveled to Lockheed Martin Space in Littleton, Colorado, where they practiced opening and closing an Orion crew module side hatch model to help demonstrate its reliability and durability during their 10-day mission around the Moon.
Posted October 23, 2024
Johnson Space Center
Artemis
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Orion Multi-Purpose Crew Vehicle
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People of Johnson
Manuel Retana arrived in the U.S. at 15 years old, unable to speak English and with nothing but a dream and $200 in his pocket. Now, he plays a crucial role implementing life support systems on spacecraft that will carry humans to the Moon and, eventually, Mars—paving the way for the next frontier of space […]
Posted September 16, 2024
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