NASA is preparing the Orion spacecraft for its first crewed flight around the moon. Here's how astronauts will fly it.

It controls Orion’s attitude, or the direction the spacecraft is pointing. If the crew wants to point Orion’s nose left, the RHC is twisted left – for nose right, they will twist the RHC right.

The NASA Orion spacecraft that will fly the Artemis 1 ... during tests with NASA’s Super Guppy aircraft in March at the Shuttle Landing Facility (SLF). The yellow truss structure mimics the ...

Following a March 25 flight home on the space agency’s Super Guppy cargo aircraft, this second Orion flight article was returned to the Armstrong Operations and Checkout (O&C) Building ...

The road to the moon goes through Northeast Ohio as the Orion spacecraft from the Artemis I mission returned to NASA's Armstrong Test Facility in Sandusky. It marks an exciting milestone for the ...

The glow appeared suddenly. A tiny spot at first, it gradually grew to a round circle falling at a great speed from the fringes of space. It was NASA’s Orion capsule, which would soon end the 25 ...

the cockpit of Federation’s rival Orion currently under development by Lockheed Martin for NASA, will also be equipped with three monitors. Another rival project, Boeing’s Starliner space ...

NASA’s Orion spacecraft made a close approach to the moon Monday, about 81 miles above the surface, as it maneuvered to enter a lunar orbit. The test flight of the Artemis I mission is a key ...

Artemis-I has already provided a test for NASA’s new heavy-lift rocket, the Space Launch System (SLS)—which passed with flying colors—and the Orion spacecraft is now on the way to the Moon.

Lockheed Martin's 2014 annual report cover featured the Orion space capsule. A decade on, it's the biggest driver of cost growth at NASA, and yet to carry astronauts. A new GAO report says Orion's ...