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 ...

It would seem that all this hubbub about nanosatellites isn’t as out of reach as originally thought. Scientists are already using nanosatellites in space today to observe the cosmos and beyond to ...

Officials gather in front of a full-scale, mock-up version of an Orion space capsule during the formal opening of the Orion Test Lab at the Lockheed Martin Space Systems Co. headquarters in Jefferson ...

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This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated.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 ...