From 1958 to 1965, the U.S. government sponsored the Orion program, which developed the idea of nuclear pulse propulsion. This concept was to power spacecraft by dropping nuclear bombs and using the ...

NASA and Lockheed Martin marked the handover of the Orion spacecraft for Artemis 2 May 1. Credit: NASA WASHINGTON — Lockheed Martin formally delivered to NASA May 1 the Orion spacecraft for Artemis 2, ...

HOUSTON — NASA’s Orion project will pursue an aggressive strategy to reduce the mass of the four-person capsule that serves as a centerpiece of U.S. efforts to develop a new human deep space ...

Min Read Grace Lauderdale, exploration project manager for the Training Systems Office at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston ...