NASA’s Orion capsule returned from its first mission with over 100 cracks in its heat shield, a failure that grounded the ...

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Artemis II’s most important finding may not be the flight around the moon. It may be that NASA has solved a critical ...

Excess charring on Artemis I's heat shield had NASA racing to understand what went wrong—and to ensure the technology was still safe for the current crew's high-speed reentry. The uncrewed Artemis I ...

NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman addressed online concerns that the Artemis II Orion spacecraft's heat shield failed during reentry after photos surfaced showing a mysterious white section on the ...

When Artemis 2 came blazing back to Earth on April 10, all eyes were on the Orion spacecraft’s heat shield. This critical hardware, designed to protect the capsule and its crew from the extreme ...

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Deputy project manager Patty Ortiz is framed in the window of a thermal chamber at NASA's Armstrong Flight Research Center used to stress-test sensors such as those on Artemis II's capsule that will ...

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EDWARDS, Calif. – The Artemis II astronauts are scheduled to return Friday from their trip around the moon. When they do, they will slam into Earth’s atmosphere at over 32 times the speed of sound – ...