Science & Medicine
NASA is preparing for the maiden launch this week of its new Orion spacecraft, which could help jump-start America’s return to human exploration of space, including a journey to Mars.
Dec. 2, 2014
World & Nation
Atop the most powerful rocket available, NASA’s next-generation space capsule Orion is scheduled to launch this morning from Cape Canaveral Air Station.
Dec. 4, 2014
Against the backdrop of a rising sun, NASA’s next-generation Orion space capsule successfully blasted off Friday morning and later landed with a “bull’s-eye” splashdown in the Pacific Ocean.
Dec. 5, 2014
Face it. You’re never going to Mars. But you can send your name. On a thumbnail-sized microchip.
Oct. 9, 2014
Fifty years after astronauts last landed on the moon, NASA’s unmanned Orion capsule splashes down west of Baja California, near Guadalupe Island.
Dec. 11, 2022
Dec. 3, 2014
A full-scale replica of the next-generation Orion crew spacecraft, tipped at a 90-degree angle, hung from cables 40 feet in the air from the huge, historic gantry at NASA’s Langley Research Center.
Aug. 27, 2016
The spaceships that NASA wants to build to carry astronauts back to the moon will be called Orion, an agency official said Wednesday.
Aug. 26, 2006
You have built a multibillion-dollar spaceship that will one day take humans to asteroids and Mars.
Sept. 18, 2014