When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. The Orion Crew Module, also known as the Orion Environmental Test Article (ETA), underwent a ...

NASA tested the Orion spacecraft forward bay cover's ejection mechanism at the Neil Armstrong Test Facility in Sandusky, Ohio. Credit: NASA/Jordan Salkin and Quentin Schwinn | edited by Space.com 'We ...

NASA’s Orion crew module recently reached a significant milestone in preparations for the Artemis 2 mission, the first crewed flight to the moon since Apollo. Engineers successfully conducted a ...

On its next flight, Exploration Mission-1 (EM-1), NASA’s Orion will come screaming into the atmosphere from the Moon at a whopping 24,700 mph. The aeroshell “ composed of critical heatshield and back ...

The forward bay cover is installed on the Artemis I spacecraft in the Final Assembly and System Testing (FAST) cell inside the Neil Armstrong Operations and Checkout building high bay at NASA’s ...

No, this is not Dr. Frankenstein's lab, but rather the Space Environments Complex, where NASA's Orion test article underwent a key jettison test. When you purchase through links on our site, we may ...