A massive crane lifts NASA’s Orion spacecraft out of the Final Assembly and System Testing cell and moves it to the altitude chamber to complete further testing on Thursday, Nov. 7, 2024, inside the Neil A. Armstrong Operations and Checkout building at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The altitude chamber simulates deep space vacuum [...]
A technician connects support straps to a crane as it prepares to lift NASA’s Orion spacecraft out of the Final Assembly and Systems Testing cell to the altitude chamber inside the Neil A. Armstrong Operations and Checkout building at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Thursday, Nov. 7, 2024. The altitude chamber simulates deep [...]
A massive crane lifts NASA’s Orion spacecraft out of the Final Assembly and System Testing cell and moves it to the altitude chamber to complete further testing on Thursday, Nov. 7, 2024, inside the Neil A. Armstrong Operations and Checkout building at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The altitude chamber simulates deep space vacuum [...]
A massive crane lifts NASA’s Orion spacecraft out of the Final Assembly and System Testing cell and moves it to the altitude chamber to complete further testing on Thursday, Nov. 7, 2024, inside the Neil A. Armstrong Operations and Checkout building at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The altitude chamber simulates deep space vacuum [...]
A massive crane lifts NASA’s Orion spacecraft out of the Final Assembly and System Testing cell and moves it to the altitude chamber to complete further testing on Thursday, Nov. 7, 2024, inside the Neil A. Armstrong Operations and Checkout building at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The altitude chamber simulates deep space vacuum [...]
This resource reel shows major milestones for NASA’s mega Moon rocket, the SLS (Space Launch System) from fall 2023 through early 2024. Teams across the country are manufacturing, building, and preparing hardware for SLS rockets that will power the first crewed Artemis missions with Artemis II and III and the first flights of SLS in [...]
Dec. 11, 2022, NASA’s Orion spacecraft reenters the atmosphere after completing a 1.4 million-mile, 25.5 day Artemis I mission to the Moon.
art001m1013251756 (Nov. 21, 2022) The Moon is seen below Orion on flight day 6 of the 25.5-day Artemis I mission. On this day, Orion completed the outbound powered flyby, passing just 81 miles above the Moon.
The Orion Environmental Test Article (the Orion spacecraft flown during Artemis I) arrived at NASA Glenn’s Armstrong Test Facility in Sandusky, Ohio on January 09, 2024 for post-mission testing.
Astronaut Shannon Walker prepares to release a weather balloon from the deck of the USS Portland ahead of the splashdown of the Artemis I Orion Spacecraft on Dec. 11. NASA's Landing and Recovery team works alongside the DoD to safely recover the capsule after missions to the Moon. [...]
