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In a setback for NASAs Artemis 1, the Mission Control Center at the agency’s Johnson Space Center in Houston lost contact with the Orion Spacecraft Wednesday for about 47 minutes.

NASA said in a Wednesday blog post that communications with the Orion spacecraft had been restored after experiencing an "unexpected lost" early in the morning.

Today is a special day in the Artemis I mission. NASA's Orion spacecraft successfully completed its first flyby of the Moon, passing just 81 miles (...

The flyby took place just five days after Orion lifted off from NASAs Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

Its not heading back to Earth quite yet -- Orion will get into a stable lunar orbit to perform some ...

Orion launched from the Kennedy Space Center on November 16 as part of Artemis I, the first spaceflight of NASA's Artemis program. The roughly 25-day mission was...

NASA's Orion spacecraft is performing amazingly in space. NASA's Orion Spacecraft has made history. The space agency's uncrewed spacecraft has recently completed a flyby of the Moon after successfully firing its orbital maneuvering system engine, re-acquiring Earth's signal in the process.

Most of the Artemis 1 cubesats have checked in as the Orion spacecraft looped around the moon, but a few still have not phoned home after launch.

As part of the Artemis I mission, the Orion module was required to circle the moon in order to help it place itself into its orbit later this week. Just before it did so, it took a photo of our natural satellite.

Four small pieces of the moon on a NASA spacecraft have come closer to the lunar surface than they have been in over 50 years. The Apollo 11 samples return home was part of the Artemis 1 mission.