For more than 40 years, the Apollo 11 command module, Columbia, was viewable under a Plexiglas shield at the Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum (NASM) in Washington, where curators reentered ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. NEW ORLEANS — The first thing nearly ...

Chasing Orion: This is the second in a series of stories leading up to the April 2019 launch of Orion’s launch abort system, which is managed by NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston. As the Orion ...

The Orion spacecraft will build upon over half a century of spaceflight science to carry humanity beyond the limits of the Earth's orbit, back to the moon, and to Mars. When you purchase through links ...

NASA has chosen umbilical extra vehicular activity (EVA) as the space walk method for its Constellation programme's Orion crew exploration vehicle. During the Space Shuttle programme, tethered EVA ...

Was it 1973 or 2013 yesterday in Norfolk, Va., when NASA and the US Navy practiced recovery of the new Orion Command Module? Not since the Apollo missions of the 1970s, prior to the shuttle program, ...

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