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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

NASA has released a Request For Information for a new engine the agency will use on the Orion European Service Module beginning with EM-6 (Exploration Mission 6). The Request For Information states ...

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 ...