COLORADO SPRINGS – As Lockheed Martin works with NASA on post-mission analysis of the Orion spacecraft following the Artemis 2 mission, the company has revealed new details about its plans for an “evolved” commercial Orion architecture designed to meet the agency’s revamped lunar exploration initiative.

Apart from pesky issues with the spacecraft’s toilet and waste disposal system, most of the Artemis II mission has proceeded like clockwork. NASA has made few changes to the flight plan since the launch of the lunar flyby mission on April 1.

While the world was focused on the technical milestones of the Artemis II mission, astronaut Christina Koch was capturing the quiet, human moments that made the 695,000-mile journey historic. In a newly released video shared to her Instagram,

Artemis II astronauts are returning to Earth after a historic lunar flyby, setting a new record for human spaceflight.

The U.S. Navy doesn’t have a nuclear-powered carrier available, but the USS John P Murtha is well-suited to the recovery mission of the Orion space capsule

Artemis 2 returned home from their 10-day trip around the Moon, Friday. Although their fiery plunge through Earth's atmosphere was the riskiest part of this entire mission, NASA reported a textbook return for splashdown.

Guy Norris of Aviation Week explores the immersive Orion space capsule experience, a standout attraction at the Space Symposium in Colorado Springs.

This is how the four astronauts sleep, use the bathroom and work out while on their 10-day mission to the moon and back.

The crew of NASA’s Artemis II mission praised the capability of their Lockheed Martin Corp.-built Orion capsule that carried them around the moon and back, noting that future astronauts using the vehicle will be “in great shape.