NASA Administrator Bill Nelson announced earlier today that his agency has delayed the Artemis II crewed lunar mission to April 2026 after problems with the Orion spacecraft’s heat shield. Orion’s return from the Moon means that the ship is subjected to greater stress than other ships like SpaceX’s Crew Dragon face while entering the Earth’s atmosphere. After the Artemis I mission in 2022, NASA shared details about heat shield cavitation a year later after it inspected Orion following its return. The delay will not affect NASA’s crewed launch cadence, as it aims to send the first humans to the Moon […]
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