HAMPTON, Va. — A full-scale mock-up of NASA’s Orion launch abort system began a week-long flatbed trailer ride across the country Tuesday, en route to White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico. Once at ...

NASA successfully demonstrated Tuesday the Orion spacecraft’s launch abort system can outrun a speeding rocket and pull astronauts to safety during an emergency during launch. The test is another ...

Jack Black's mom was Judith Love Cohen, a NASA engineer who helped create the abort-guidance system that rescued the Apollo 13 astronauts. In early 2024, a popular topic on Reddit went viral once ...

The NASA Constellation Program is developing an astronaut escape system for its Orion spacecraft, designed to carry humans to the International Space Station by 2015 and to the lunar surface by 2020.

NASA’s Artemis II SLS (Space Launch System) rocket is getting ready to send four astronauts from Earth on a journey around the Moon in 2026. Engineers have upgraded the agency’s Moon SLS rocket inside ...

All the excitement that surrounded the first major pad test for the Space Launch System (SLS) rocket and the Orion spacecraft has cooled down over the weekend, as NASA scrubbed initial plans for the ...

NASA's new Orion space capsule is one step closer to returning to space, this time for a mission around the moon. The U.S. space agency released photos of the moonbound spacecraft moving between ...

Alliant Techsystems reported a successful full-scale test of the Orion crew exploration vehicle launch abort system (LAS) at the company’s Promontory, Utah, test site this afternoon. The static test ...

Aerodynamic improvements to the launch abort system could let NASA increase the mass of its Orion crew exploration vehicle by 545kg (1,200lb). NASA and its Orion prime contractor Lockheed Martin have ...

NASA and contractor Northrop Grumman lit up the emergency thrusters that will save astronaut lives in the event a moon mission goes horribly wrong. The launch abort system is the emergency measure on ...

The test launch of the Max Launch Abort System, or MLAS from NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility has been delayed to no earlier than 20 June due to weather issues. Here’s a look at the vehicle itself ...