Traveling to the Moon and returning required three unique and technologically advanced pieces of spacecraft, from the Saturn V rocket, to the Command Module, Columbia, and the Lunar Module, Eagle.

Here’s a fun fact that’ll make your brain do a little flip: the world’s largest space museum isn’t in Houston, Washington D.C ...

NASA's Artemis II astronauts return after a historic lunar flyby, setting a distance record and sharing life aboard the Orion spacecraft.

The Lockheed Martin Orion is the latest arrival of a human-rated spacecraft slated to take humans beyond the bounds of Low Earth Orbit and close to the surface of another heavenly body. But for all ...

Life in space is weirder than you might think, with the crew facing toilet issues, saliva collections, DIY fixes to onboard components and a menu of dehydrated food.

The Apollo 13 mission remains one of the most dramatic episodes in the history of human spaceflight. Originally planned as NASA’s third mission to land astronauts on the Moon, Apollo 13 instead turned ...

Surrounded by a vast dark expanse, huddled in sleeping bags with three of your friends in a space the size of a five-person tent. This isn’t a camping trip ‒ it’s life on Orion ‒ the spacecraft ...

The Orion spacecraft that’s taking the four Artemis II astronauts around the moon and back is the largest crewed capsule ever sent beyond low Earth orbit – with habitable space roughly equal to that ...

They’ll be itching for a giant leap when this is done. Life onboard Artemis II’s moon-bound spaceship will be a cramped and possibly smelly affair. And it’s not a huge improvement from the last time ...

We've all been on long road trips, cramped into the backseat of a car for several hours as the twists and turns of the highway intensify already uncomfortable circumstances. Now, imagine similar ...