A group of U.S. Navy divers, Air Force pararescuemen and Coast Guard rescue swimmers practiced Orion open water recovery techniques Sept. 20-22 in the Neutral Buoyancy Laboratory (NBL), the largest indoor pool in the U.S., at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston. […]
How do you know if a spacecraft can hold up to the intense vibrations of launching atop the world’s most powerful rocket? You shake it on the world’s most powerful vibration table. […]
A group of U.S. Navy divers, Air Force pararescuemen and Coast Guard rescue swimmers practice Orion underway recovery techniques in the Neutral Buoyancy Laboratory at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston on Sept. 21, 2016. […]
When Apollo 10 launched at 12:49 p.m. Eastern Time on May 18, 1969, the crew’s mission was to fly the complete profile of a Moon landing mission – without actually touching down on the Moon. […]
Engineers at Kennedy Space Center in Florida recently conducted a series of pressure tests of the Orion pressure vessel. […]
At NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston, engineer Heather Paul and astronaut Chris Cassidy put on spacesuits to test out the next generation controller for the Orion spacecraft – NASA’s deep space vehicle that will take humans on the #JourneyToMars. […]
NASA’s Orion spacecraft is another step closer to launching on its first mission to deep space atop the agency’s Space Launch System (SLS) rocket.
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NASA is hard at work building the Orion spacecraft, Space Launch System (SLS) rocket and the ground systems needed to send astronauts into deep space.
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NASA’s mission to send astronauts to deep space destinations where no other human has traveled has taken another important step forward with the completion of a critical milestone for the Orion spacecraft currently in production. […]
NASA is another small step closer to sending astronauts on a journey to Mars. […]
Inside the Neil Armstrong Operations and Checkout Building high bay at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, technicians have removed a side thermal window from one of Orion’s tile panels. […]
The heat shield of NASA’s Orion Spacecraft is being closely inspected by engineers from three NASA field centers […]
