spacecraft

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The team, which includes pilot Victor Glover and mission specialists Christina Koch and Jeremy Hansen, has completed a critical engine burn that could propel the Orion spacecraft to the far side of the Moon.

From BBC • Apr. 3, 2026

Koch, for instance, sleeps "suspended like a bat" while Glover fits himself into a narrow nook between space equipment and the ceiling of the spacecraft.

From BBC • Apr. 3, 2026

NASA’s Artemis II mission launched successfully, with the Orion spacecraft now 40,000 miles from Earth, carrying four astronauts toward the Moon.

From Barron's • Apr. 2, 2026

Developed by Lockheed Martin, the spacecraft includes a module where the astronauts live and work.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 1, 2026

A television transmission that has just finished being aired will, in only a few hours, overtake the Voyager spacecraft in the region of Saturn and beyond and speed outward to the stars.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan