NASA will fly Artemis II with the same Orion heat shield that cracked on its last mission

The Artemis II crew comprises NASA astronauts Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover and Christina Koch, and Canadian Space Agency ...
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Orion’s heat shield isn’t behaving normally so NASA is rewriting the way it comes home

The heat shield of Orion, returned by Artemis I, was battered and bruised over 100 times, and NASA intends to put four people ...

NASA is about to send people to the moon — in a spacecraft not everyone thinks is safe to fly

As the four-person crew of Artemis II prepares to launch on a historic mission around the moon as soon as February, some ...
Ars Technica

NASA is stacking the Artemis II rocket, implying a simple heat shield fix

The Space Launch System rocket that will dispatch four astronauts on the first Moon mission in more than 50 years passed a major milestone Wednesday. NASA said ground teams inside the Vehicle Assembly ...
Space.com

NASA faces tough decisions on Orion capsule's heat shield for Artemis moon missions

NASA identified more than 100 locations where ablative thermal protective material was liberated during its speedy reentry. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...
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NASA delays Artemis II human moon mission once again as it wraps up heat shield investigation

The launch of NASA's first mission to the moon that will carry a Canadian and three American astronauts has been delayed once again, after a lengthy investigation into the heat shield used on the ...