WASHINGTON — NASA and Alliant Techsystems, or ATK, reached another milestone Friday with the successful test firing of a critical safety component for the Orion crew exploration vehicle, NASA’s next ...

NASA's Orion spacecraft, which will carry the first woman and the next man to the moon in 2024, was successfully tested Tuesday. Weather conditions at Kennedy Space Center in Florida were perfect for ...

Aerojet Rocketdyne recently passed a key milestone in preparation for the Ascent Abort Test (AA-2) next year with the successful casting of the Jettison Motor for the Lockheed Martin-built Orion ...

HAMPTON — For 10 years, NASA engineers in Hampton have been working on technology they hope will never be used. Now that technology — the emergency launch abort system for the Orion crew capsule — ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. (CNN) — NASA’s Orion spacecraft, which will ...