Moon Mission

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NASA’s Orion spacecraft descends under three. orange and white main parachutes. Credit: NASA NASA’s Orion spacecraft parachuted to a gentle splashdown in the Pacific Ocean Sunday west of Baja California, ending an unpiloted test flight to the moon that spanned 25-and-a-half days and 1.4 million miles, proving out a new…

Home News Spaceflight A view of Earth from NASA's Artemis 1 Orion spacecraft as it approached its home planet on Dec. 11, 2022. (Image credit: NASA) NASA couldn't be happier with how its Artemis 1 moon mission went. Artemis 1 wrapped up Sunday afternoon (Dec. 11) with the successful splashdown…

Home News Spaceflight NASA’s Space Launch System rocket carrying the Orion spacecraft launches on the Artemis 1 flight test, Wednesday, Nov. 16, 2022, from Launch Complex 39B at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. (Image credit: NASA/Joel Kowsky) The first mission of NASA's ambitious Artemis program produced some beautiful images.…

NASA picked a very good morning to return from the moon. It was 50 years ago today that the crew of Apollo 17 landed in the Taurus Littrow Valley on the lunar surface, where they planted the last of six flags Apollo crews would leave behind to mark their moments…

Orion’s triumphant return. Gif: NASA/Gizmodo The uncrewed Orion spacecraft performed a flawless splashdown in the Pacific Ocean earlier today, in what is a very promising and exciting start to the Artemis era of lunar missions. A recovery team led by NASA’s Exploration Ground Systems is in the midst of recovering…

NASA needed a successful splashdown to stay on track for the next Orion flight around the moon, which will hopefully have four astronauts, and is currently targeted for 2024 Video Loading Video Unavailable NASA's Orion capsule returns to Earth by landing in the Pacific NASA 's Orion capsule has splash-landed…

by Jeff Foust — December 11, 2022 The Orion capsule splashes down in the Pacific Ocean Dec. 11 to conclude the Artemis 1 mission. Credit: NASA Updated at 5:45 p.m. Eastern after post-splashdown briefing. WASHINGTON — Fifty years to the day after the last Apollo moon mission touched down on…

After a 26-day mission that took it on a historic journey around the moon, NASA’s next-generation Orion capsule has returned to Earth. The uncrewed spacecraft had a "picture perfect splashdown" Sunday in the Pacific Ocean off San Diego at 12:40 p.m. E.T., according to officials. The capsule’s return marked the…

NASA’s Orion spacecraft splashed down in the Pacific Ocean, west of Baja California, at 9:39 a.m. PST Sunday after a record-breaking mission, traveling more than 1.4 million miles on a path around the Moon and returning safely to Earth, completing the Artemis I flight test...Read More