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Trump’s Big Beautiful Bill adds $9.9 billion to NASA’s budget, reversing plans to cut the Space Launch System and Orion.
More than $10 billion in funds are included in Trump’s tax and spending bill for NASA programs previously targeted by the ...
NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS) is ready to fly with its four shuttle-era engines. The rocket, outfitted with the RS-25 ...
OMS is the main engine: a re-purposed engine that has flown 19 times in other space shuttle flights from 1984 to 2002, according to NASA. The Earth as seen from Orion. CREDIT: NASA.
The uncrewed Artemis 1 mission launched in November 2022, using the gigantic Space Launch System (SLS) rocket to send an Orion spacecraft around the moon and back, serving as a crucial test for ...
NASA's Orion space capsule breaks record on moon mission 02:02. NASA's unpiloted Orion moonship, sailing smoothly toward a remote lunar orbit after a spectacular low-altitude flyby Monday, is ...
The Orbital Maneuvering System engine is a repurposed piece of space shuttle hardware flying for the first time on Orion, having last flown during the STS-112 mission in October 2002.
NASA's Orion spacecraft skirted past the moon Monday morning, Nov. 21, the closest a human-rated craft has been to the moon since the last Apollo mission in 1972.
The Artemis I rocket sits on Launch Pad 39-B ahead of sunrise on Friday, Aug. 19, 2022 ahead awaiting its first launch attempt on Aug. 29. The Artemis I rocket sits on Launch Pad 39-B ahead of sunr… ...
When NASA's Artemis I mission lifts off from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Monday, it will mark a major step forward for the space agency that will have been 12 years in the making.
The last time a human-rated spacecraft flew anywhere close to Orion's newly set record of 268,563 miles away from our home planet, was in 1970 during NASA's Apollo 13 mission.