During Artemis I, the Orion spacecraft heat shield suffered charring, prompting an investigation. Here's why NASA is confident for Artemis II.

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When a spacecraft re-enters Earth’s atmosphere, it must withstand temperatures of up to 3870°C. Here, inside NASA’s Arc Jet Complex at the Ames Research Centre in California, a heat-shield design is ...

As the Artemis II mission prepares to take off in March, a retired NASA engineer and astronaut has raised concerns about the Orion spacecraft's heat shield. The performance of the heat shield is ...

"We support NASA's decision to fly the Artemis 2 mission with its current heat shield and are committed to seeing Orion safely launch and return on its historic mission to the moon with crew onboard." ...

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The heat shield on Orion is made of 186 blocks of a special material called AVCOAT, which is designed to both provide insulation against the heat, and to burn off in a controlled, predictable way, ...

NASA is sending some astronauts on a little trek out of Earth's orbit and around the moon, which is just the start of its current plans to send crewed missions back to the lunar surface. This is an ...

Sounding off: NASA is getting ready to send four astronauts around the moon in a capsule whose main safety system has already behaved in an unexpected way. The Orion spacecraft's Avcoat heat shield, ...

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When four astronauts begin a historic trip around the moon as soon as February 6, they’ll climb aboard NASA’s 16.5-foot-wide Orion spacecraft with the understanding that it has a known flaw — one that ...