Orion Multi-Purpose Crew Vehicle

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

Vacuum Testing Complete on Artemis II Orion Spacecraft

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

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Marshall Space Flight Center

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Space Launch System (SLS)

NASA Shares Orion Heat Shield Findings, Updates Artemis Moon Missions

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

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Orion Multi-Purpose Crew Vehicle

Orion Program

NASA Identifies Cause of Artemis I Orion Heat Shield Char Loss

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

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Christina H. Koch

G. Reid Wiseman

Kennedy Space Center

Orion Multi-Purpose Crew Vehicle

Victor J. Glover

Artemis II Orion Spacecraft Undergoes Testing

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 Astronauts Put Orion’s Side Hatch to the Test

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

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People of Johnson

NASA Johnson Honors Hispanic Heritage: Meet Manuel Retana

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

Artemis

Artemis 2

Kennedy Space Center

Orion Multi-Purpose Crew Vehicle

NASA’s Orion Spacecraft Gets Lift on Earth

Crane operator Rebekah Tolatovicz, a shift mechanical technician lead for Artic Slope Regional Corporation at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, operates a 30-ton crane to lift the agency’s Artemis II Orion spacecraft out of the recently renovated altitude chamber to the Final Assembly and Systems Testing, or FAST, cell inside NASA Kennedy’s N

Posted July 26, 2024

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Kennedy Space Center

Orion Multi-Purpose Crew Vehicle

Orion on the Rise

Technicians lift NASA’s Orion spacecraft out of the Final Assembly and System Testing cell on June 28, 2024.

Posted July 3, 2024

Ames Research Center

Ames Research Center's Science Directorate

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Game Changing Development Program

General

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Space Technology Mission Directorate

What is 3D-MAT?

A thermal protection material for the Artemis Generation The 3-Dimensional Multifunctional Ablative Thermal Protection System (3D-MAT) is a thermal protection material developed as a critical component of Orion, NASA’s newest spacecraft built for human deep space missions.

Posted May 23, 2024