Since the time of the ancient Greek physician Hippocrates, cancer has been recognized as being sensitive to heat. Today, this ...

NASA’s Artemis program has hit a critical snag—over 100 unexpected cracks have been discovered in the Orion capsule’s heat ...

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The consecutive failures may have decreased the likelihood SpaceX can meet NASA’s goal of landing on the moon in 2027, ...

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 outside of the capsule will still get very hot during reentry, and the heat shield will still evaporate. But these new methods will help keep the astronauts cozy in the capsule all the way ...

The outside of the capsule will still get very hot during reentry, and the heat shield will still evaporate. But these new methods will help keep the astronauts cozy in the capsule all the way ...

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 ...

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 ...

more charred material separated from the heat shield than computer models predicted. While the unexpected "liberation" had no impact on the spacecraft — NASA said astronauts would not have even ...

TL;DR: NASA has completed its assessment of the cracked heatshield on the Orion module and determined that Artemis II astronauts will ... Orion's heat shield didn't allow enough of the gasses ...