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 ...

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 ...

“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 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.

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 ...

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 ...

NASA's long-awaited crewed missions to the moon will have to wait a little longer. The U.S. space agency announced Thursday ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...