Designed to carry astronauts farther into space than ever before, NASA’s next-generation Orion space capsule is one step closer to its first mission around the Moon. One key component of Orion is ...

Airbus Defence and Space, prime contractor for NASA’s Orion space vehicle’s European Service Module (ESM), has completed four large titanium tanks for the module that will be delivered for initial ...

WASHINGTON — NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., is laying the groundwork to develop an unpressurized cargo (UPC) capability for the Constellation program’s Orion Crew Exploration ...

The European Service Module for the next Orion mission has completed final system integration at the Airbus facility in Bremen, Germany after technicians installed the last radiator unit. The first ...

The second Airbus-built European Service Module (ESM) for NASA’s Orion spacecraft is ready for delivery from the Airbus site in Bremen, Germany. An Antonov cargo aircraft will fly the ESM-2 to NASA’s ...

Development of the Apollo spacecraft began in 1961 at North American Aviation, the company that built the spacecraft for Nasa. The spacecraft was developed specifically for lunar missions and the test ...