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 ...

Artemis II is the first mission that will put astronauts at the controls of the Orion spacecraft. Finally, agency officials announced the results of the heat shield inquiry Thursday. The ...

“We know what needs to be done for future missions, but the Artemis 2 heat shield is already built, so how do we assure astronaut safety with Artemis 2?,” Glaze said during the ...

NASA will use the Orion capsule with its original heat shield for the next flight with four astronauts, according to Nelson, but make changes to the reentry path at flight's end. To rip off and ...

A retired NASA astronaut is sounding the alarm on safety with the Artemis II mission. Earlier this month, NASA said they finally figured out what went wrong with the heat shields from Artemis I.

Sad day for NASA," Ed Pope, an expert in advanced materials and heat shields, wrote on LinkedIn. There is a lot riding on NASA's decision, as the Artemis II mission involves four astronauts and ...

To keep the astronauts safe, Dragon employs a heat shield to keep it from burning up during re-entry. The drag helped slow down the vehicle, so it was safe to deploy its parachutes. Dragon then ...

The US astronauts stranded on the International ... across the water at a red-hot 400 miles per hour, which set its heat shield aglow in the clear afternoon skies. Moments earlier, it had been ...