Aerospace engineers here in Western New York are focused on the blazing return to earth for the Artemis II mission.

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

The astronauts Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, Christina Koch and Jeremy Hansen are preparing to launch into space on a ...

Heat shields keep incoming spacecraft from burning up in planetary atmospheres. Now we're learning that different atmospheres ...

Having never been tested with astronauts, the space capsule’s heat shield and life support system are raising concerns after ...

While I was leading a tour of the National Air and Space Museum in January 2026, a visitor posed this insightful question: ...

It will be one of the most dangerous parts of Artemis II, and not everyone thinks NASA should trust the astronauts’ lives to a heat shield that was damaged the last time it re-entered the Earth’s ...

NASA's Artemis II astronauts will spend about 24 hours orbiting the Earth and running checks on their spacecraft and life ...

A simple science explanation of how heat shields protect spacecraft and other vehicles from extreme temperatures by managing ...

The Artemis II crew will be the first humans in decades to fly beyond low-Earth orbit, meaning that they won’t be protected ...

NASA will occasionally give the public the opportunity to tune in and listen to so-called "downlink events" as the astronauts ...