NASA Is About to Send People to the Moon — in a Spacecraft Not Everyone Thinks Is Safe to Fly

NASA is about to send people to the moon — in a spacecraft not everyone thinks is safe to fly

HOUSTON (CNN) — When four astronauts begin a historic trip around the moon as soon as Feb. 6, they’ll climb aboard NASA’s 16.5-foot-wide Orion spacecraft with the understanding that it has a known flaw — one that has some experts urging the space agency not to fly the mission with humans on board. But NASA […]

NASA will fly Artemis II with the same Orion heat shield that cracked on its last mission

The Artemis II crew comprises NASA astronauts Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover and Christina Koch, and Canadian Space Agency astronaut Jeremy Hansen. They will fly in a 16.5-foot-wide Orion capsule on top of the Space Launch System for a roughly ten-day trip around the moon as early as February 6.Read Entire Article

Beneath the Confidence: Inside the High-Stakes Race to Fix NASA’s Orion Capsule

WASHINGTON—In the carefully managed narrative of America’s return to the Moon, NASA projects an aura of methodical confidence. The agency recently pushed the schedule for its next two crewed lunar missions, framing the delays as a prudent measure to ensure astronaut safety. But behind the public assurances, a far more urgent and uncertain engineering drama is unfolding, centered on the flagship Orion spacecraft and a series of critical flaws tha…