Orion spacecraft

NASA's crew spacecraft for Artemis flights on the Space Launch System. The crew module fits four people for up to 21 days. The European Service Module, below the crew module, provides propulsion, thermal control, and electrical power from solar arrays. This card does not describe the launch-abort system.

What: Orion spacecraft
Where: Flown on NASA's SLS (NASA overview)
When: Apr 3, 2026
Who: NASA
Status: U.S. government work (public domain). Credit: NASA. Photo: NASA/JSC, public domain (U.S. government work), via Wikimedia Commons (File:Orion Spacecraft Earth Views 20221116.jpg). The source page is linked.

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NASA · Orion overview

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Public NASA overview. Component dimensions that appear only on a different NASA table are not copied here.

Source: NASA.

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