NASA has announced that it has finished construction of the first Orion spacecraft. Orion, which is scheduled to take its first test flight aboard a Delta IV rocket on December 4, will be the first ...

"On Saturday, Orion surpassed the distance record for a mission with a spacecraft designed to carry humans into deep space. And that record before had been set by Apollo 13 at about 248,000 miles from ...

As a rocket revolution sets the stage for astronauts to explore Mars, advances in bioengineering could help them survive the ...

USA: The Orion spacecraft is to launch into orbit today as part of NASA's preparations to take humans all the way to Mars. Orion is an exploration vehicle designed specifically to take humans to the ...