The powerhouse that will help NASA’s Orion spacecraft venture beyond the Moon is stateside. The European-built service module that will propel, power and cool during Orion flight to the Moon on Exploration Mission-1 arrived from Germany at the agency’s ...

Work has been progressing steadily on all three main parts of Orion – the service module, the crew module and the launch abort system – and this month the service module joined the launch abort system in crossing the finish line. The second of three ...

HOUSTON—The Artemis II astronauts returned from a nine-day flight test of NASA’s deep-space Orion capsule on April 10, marking the first crewed flight beyond Earth orbit in more than 50 years and setting the stage for a series of missions to establish a base on the Moon.

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — Lockheed Martin Space Systems is working to get American parts onto the European service module slated to power the first crewed flight of the Orion deep-space capsule the Denver-based company is building for NASA. The European ...

Space exploration is a fascinating human activity, but at times it does come across as strange. Like when NASA rocket scientists surrounded the Artemis II Service Module with huge speakers and blasted sound at the thing. The European Service Module by its ...

As NASA’s Artemis II mission prepares to return to Earth on Friday, April 10, a Hamilton High School grad will be monitoring its progress.