The powerhouse that will help NASA’s Orion spacecraft venture beyond the Moon is stateside. The European-built service module that will propel, power and cool during Orion flight to the Moon on ...

The European Service Module is ESA’s contribution to NASA’s Orion spacecraft that will send astronauts to the Moon and beyond. It provides electricity, water, oxygen and nitrogen as well as keeping ...

Space exploration is a fascinating human activity, but at times it does come across as strange. Like when NASA rocket scientists surrounded the Artemis II Service Module with huge speakers and blasted ...

The European Space Agency (ESA) has completed the service module for NASA's Orion spaceship, which is meant to take the nearly cancelled Artemis 4 mission to the moon. The module, which is supposed to ...

NASA technicians joined the Artemis III Orion crew module and European Service Module together on July 30 inside the Neil A. Armstrong Operations and Checkout Building at Kennedy Space Center in ...

If you’ve watched a Saturn V launch, you’ve probably seen how a large rocket will often jettison a stage on the way up. There are several reasons for this — there is no reason to haul an empty fuel ...

The Orion crew and service modules for the Artemis III mission on Friday, July 31, 2026, after engineers joined the modules inside the Neil A. Armstrong Operations and Checkout Building at NASA’s ...