The Orion shares a shape with Apollo, although it is slightly more blunt, and is both heavier and roomier than Apollo. Orion weighs in at 19,000 pounds, and is 10 feet, 10 inches tall and 16 feet ...

NASA's Orion capsule is on its way home from the moon to wrap up a three-week test flight. The capsule and its test dummies came within 80 miles of the far side of the moon Monday.

The Artemis I mission lifted off on Nov. 16, ... Orion approached the moon Monday flying over the landing sites of NASA's Apollo 12 and 14 missions. At the time Orion was about 6,000 miles ...

Orion is set to break the Apollo 13 record at 8:42 a.m. on Saturday, November 26 (day 11), and reach its maximum distance from Earth at 4:05 p.m. on Monday, November 28 (day 13), at which point ...

It’s the first time a capsule has visited the moon since NASA’s Apollo program 50 years ago, and represented a huge milestone in the $4.1 billion test flight that began Nov. 16. Orion’s ...

First view of Earth from Orion. NASA shared the first view of the Earth captured by a camera mounted on one of Orion's solar array wings, when the spacecraft was over 57,000 miles away from Earth.

NASA’s Orion capsule has broken the distance record set by Apollo 13 for a mission with a spacecraft designed to carry humans to deep space and back to Earth.