With the Space Launch System (SLS) and Orion currently at Launch Complex-39B and ready for the Artemis I launch to the moon from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center (KSC), additional work is progressing at the Agency’s Michoud Assembly Facility for other Orion spacecraft.
NASASpaceflight’s Philip Sloss recently visited the facility and interviewed Tim Livingston, an Integrated Planning Manager at Lockheed Martin.
Lockheed Martin has completed the first-time power-up of the Orion capsule for the Artemis 2…
April marked Expedition 67’s first full month aboard the International Space Station, with the outpost’s…
Crew Dragon Endurance has concluded the Crew-3 mission, returning astronauts Raja Chari, Kayla Barron, Tom…
The Artemis I Orion spacecraft is currently undergoing final checkouts before the critical milestone of…
After a 36 hour phasing profile, the S.S. Ellison Onizuka cargo ship, part of Northrop…
The SpaceX CRS-22 mission has come to a close, with Cargo Dragon having departed the…
NASA is currently forecasting that Artemis 2 will be ready to launch no earlier than…
Once the troublesome element of the Constellation (now Artemis) Program, three Orion spacecraft are in…
Northrop Grumman kicked off their 2021 launch manifest with the flight of an Antares rocket…
NASA is studying the addition of an Orion rendezvous demonstration to the Artemis 2 test…
The Orion spacecraft for NASA’s Artemis 1 mission is set up back at home in…
The NASA Orion spacecraft that will fly the Artemis 1 lunar orbit mission is about…
With a mid-2020 Administration deadline for Exploration Mission-1 (EM-1) fast approaching, NASA tasked its Launch…
While NASA pushes it Space Launch System (SLS) to make a mid-2020 debut, Orion also…
While final assembly continues on the Orion spacecraft that will make the program’s first solo…
The two modules that will fly NASA’s first solo Orion flight into lunar orbit and…
In early December, NASA’s Orion Program completed a “Delta” Critical Design Review (CDR) of the…
Coming off this year’s manifest changes to the early missions in NASA’s Exploration campaign, the…
The 404-day clock to connect, checkout, and test the first integrated Orion spacecraft for its…