NASA is moving quickly to define next year’s Artemis III mission in Earth orbit, a crewed flight that will test rendezvous and docking capabilities between the agency’s Orion spacecraft and commercial ...

In a little more than 24 hours, the Orion module that housed the astronauts of the Artemis II mission will come splashing back down to Earth, thus completing the mission. Earth returns and splashdowns ...

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Fla. — NASA’s “repaired” Artemis II Moon rocket and Orion spacecraft are back on the launch pad at Kennedy Space Center after an 11-hour rollout from the Vehicle Assembly ...

DENVER, April 10, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- After traveling 694,481 miles to the Moon and back, the Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT)-built Orion spacecraft has successfully splashed down in the Pacific Ocean, ...

NASA's Artemis 2 Orion spacecraft rests after its flight around the moon, charred from the return to Earth.

The Artemis II crew—NASA astronauts Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, Christina Koch and Canadian Space Agency astronaut Jeremy Hansen—are heading back to Earth. The crew is expected to splash down in the ...