A number of issues uncovered during a practice run of the launch prompted the move of the mission to no earlier than March 6.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Orion spacecraft undergoes preparations for the NASA Artemis II mission at the Neil Armstrong Operations and Checkout Building at the Kennedy Space Center in March. The spacecraft ...

NASA astronauts train on Orion spacecraft systems, flight operations, and lunar observations in preparation for the 10-day Artemis II mission around the Moon.

The countdown for NASA’s Artemis II lunar mission is getting closer. NASA announced that the earliest launch window for Artemis II is Feb. 6, 2026, with 12 more possible dates available from February-April. The Artemis mission, a followup to the Apollo ...

A test launch for Artemis II has been pushed to February 2nd, delaying a mission launch until February 8th at the earliest.

NASA has confirmed the upcoming milestones for its historic Artemis II mission—the first crewed flight of the Space Launch System (SLS) rocket and Orion spacecraft, sending four astronauts on a lunar flyby for the first time in over 50 years—with ...

The Orion stack sits on top of a piece called "Spacecraft Adapter" (SA). Among other things, it encapsulates the [European] Service Module's ([E]SM's) various nozzles, and provides them with standoff spacing from the "Orion Stage Adapter" (OSA) that sits ...