NASA’s Orion Exploration Mission-2 (EM-2) is ready for final assembly at Kennedy Space Center in Florida after the arrival of its pressure vessel on August 24. The pressure vessel is the primary...
NASA Begins Final Assembly on Orion Spacecraft That will Carry Humans Further into Space than Ever Before
NASA’s Orion Exploration Mission-2 (EM-2) is ready for final assembly at Kennedy Space Center in Florida after the arrival of its pressure vessel on August 24. The pressure vessel is the primary...
It's not just revolutionary start-ups like Rocket Lab that are using 3D printing to create their rockets and spaceships. NASA's new crew capsule Orion will have over 100 3D printed parts specially developed by prime contractor Lockheed Martin, in coo...
NASA is aiming to launch its deep space-bound Space Launch System (SLS) in December 2019, even though a review has suggested it's not likely to fly until mid-2020. The launch date has already been pushed back once due to technical issues, but NASA is...
As Project Mercury astronaut Gus Grissom learned, NASA spaceflights are not over after splashdown. During his 1961 mission, the hatch blew too soon and nearly took him and the "Liberty Bell" capsule to the bottom of the sea. Ever since, NASA has take...
It's an exciting time for spaceflight, for sure. Both NASA and SpaceX have plans in place to send rockets and humans into our solar system. Elon Musk's company wants to use the moon as a pit stop on its way to Mars, and NASA wanted to include a human...
The Space Launch System (SLS), the heavy rocket NASA plans to send humans to Mars with, won't get its first launch until 2019. Tech problems have delayed the project years later than Congress' originally estimated it would debut, but space agency off...