Orion

NASA's Orion capsule blazes home after historic test flight to moon

The Orion capsule's successful moon mission and splash down is the first since Apollo 17 fifty years ago, paving the way for the next Orion flight around the moon.

NASA returning to Moon with most powerful, 32-storey tall rocket launch

Dubbed Artemis I, the mission brings the US a big step closer to putting astronauts back on the lunar surface for the first time since the end of the Apollo programme 50 years ago.

NASA to test 'most powerful rocket' for Artemis launch

NASA's $37 billion rocket system aims to return astronauts to Moon and establish a long-term lunar colony as a precursor to eventual human exploration of Mars.

SpaceX wins $2.9B NASA tender to take astronauts to moon

SpaceX beat Blue Origin and Dynetics to win the contract and become what NASA called its "most trusted private sector partner."