Orion Boosters Build Anticipation

NASA hopes to launch an Orion crew capsule into space for the first time before the end of this year — two or three months later than previously planned. Once targeted for September or October, the mission called Exploration Flight Test-1, or EFT-1, is now shooting...

Engineers Continue Pushing Orion Parachute System to Its Limits

The parachute system designed for NASA’s Orion spacecraft passed another hurdle on Feb. 26, in a test that put extra stress on its drogue parachutes and simulated a failure of one of its three main parachutes. Engineers dropped a dart-shaped test vehicle that...