The powerhouse that will help NASA’s Orion spacecraft venture beyond the Moon is stateside. The European-built service module that will propel, power and cool during Orion flight to the Moon on ...

Space exploration is a fascinating human activity, but at times it does come across as strange. Like when NASA rocket scientists surrounded the Artemis II Service Module with huge speakers and blasted ...

A view of the aft section of the European Service Module of the Orion spacecraft taken as the Artemis 1 mission nears its conclusion. Credit: NASA WASHINGTON — As the Artemis 1 mission nears its ...

NASA technicians joined the Artemis III Orion crew module and European Service Module together on July 30 inside the Neil A. Armstrong Operations and Checkout Building at Kennedy Space Center in ...

Yesterday, ESA formally gave possession of the second European Service Module to NASA for the Artemis II mission that will see four astronauts circle our moon and return to Earth. In the presence of ...

If you’ve watched a Saturn V launch, you’ve probably seen how a large rocket will often jettison a stage on the way up. There are several reasons for this — there is no reason to haul an empty fuel ...

ESA ships Artemis 4 Orion service module to NASA after Trump tried to cancel it ...

The Orion crew and service modules for the Artemis III mission on Friday, July 31, 2026, after engineers joined the modules inside the Neil A. Armstrong Operations and Checkout Building at NASA’s ...