NASA on Thursday delayed sending astronauts back ... Officials said spacecraft improvements are still needed, and an investigation into heat shield damage from an early test flight took longer ...

NASA Administrator Bill Nelson said the delays are needed to revise the Orion crew capsule's re-entry trajectory to reduce stress and prevent the sort of unexpected heat shield damage seen after ...

NASA won't replace this heat shield for the Artemis 2 mission ... Nelson insisted that the mission will launch in time to beat China in the race to send a crewed mission to the moon.

NASA has announced that it is delaying its ambitious Artemis II and Artemis III missions, which will see astronauts travel around and then land on the moon for the first time in over 50 years.

However, once NASA engineers got a closer look at the Orion spacecraft, their optimism faded. They saw cracks in the craft's heat shield and divots in the ablative thermal protection layer ...

NASA reported after Artemis I returned to Earth that the vehicle's heat shield had experienced an unexpected loss of charred material. NASA intended to use this same material for future crewed ...

The launch of NASA's first mission to the moon that will carry a Canadian and three American astronauts has been delayed once again, after a lengthy investigation into the heat shield used on the ...

NASA finally knows what caused the erosion of the Orion spacecraft’s heat shield following its historic trip to the Moon in 2022, but the space agency is not telling, at least not yet.

Damage to the heat shield on the Orion spacecraft flown on Artemis 1, as depicted in a NASA Office of Inspector General report. Credit: NASA OIG HUNTSVILLE, Ala. — NASA has determined why the ...

NASA has delayed the Artemis-2 mission to 2026 due to Orion capsule heat shield issues. The delay also affects Artemis-3 moon landing, now planned for 2027. NASA Administrator Bill Nelson said the ...