The European Space Agency (ESA) has signed a further contract with Airbus for the construction of three more European Service Modules (ESM) for Orion, the American crewed spacecraft for the Artemis ...

The U.S. is the only country to have ever sent humans to the moon.

As America approaches its 250th anniversary of declaring independence, NASA's Artemis II mission will carry a host of ...

In about two years' time humanity will return to the surface of the Moon, as NASA will begin the Artemis III mission. That may seem like way into the future, and for most things, it is. But when when ...

CAPE CANAVERAL—Seven years after Europe signed the contract to supply the service module for NASA’s Orion spacecraft, the system arrived at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center (KSC) on Nov. 6. Carried inside ...

People who have the right to step inside the Vehicle Assembly Building (VAB) at the Kennedy Space Center are treated these days to an impressive sight: the Space Launch System (SLS) rocket carrying on ...

At its closest approach to the Moon, the Orion spacecraft is projected to reach a peak velocity of approximately 8,280 kilometres per hour relative to the lunar surface. If a brake of 2,900 km/h fails ...