KENNEDY SPACE CENTER — The Artemis II crew performed a special burn of the Orion capsule on Thursday evening. This critical burn is the last step to sending the four astronauts on a flyby of the moon.

On the morning of Sept. 26, 1960, a 26-year-old man from the dairy farms of Wisconsin walked up North Michigan Avenue toward Tribune Tower in downtown Chicago. He was about to begin his first day at ...

This is how the four astronauts sleep, use the bathroom and work out during their 10-day mission to the moon and back. Anna Gragert Senior Editor, Health and Home Anna Gragert (she/her/hers) was ...

Surrounded by a vast dark expanse, huddled in sleeping bags with three of your friends in a space the size of a five-person tent. This isn’t a camping trip ‒ it’s life on Orion ‒ the spacecraft ...

As a host at WGN in Chicago for 60 years, he shared news that was essential to farmers in a homespun style that appealed to listeners from the city. By Michael S. Rosenwald Orion Samuelson, the voice ...

Orion Samuelson, who covered the agriculture business for 60 years, primarily for Chicago’s WGN, died March 16 at the age of 91. Michael S. Rosenweld of The New York Times reports, “In a deep, ...

NASA’s Artemis II crew fired the Orion spacecraft’s main engine, committing the mission to a trajectory toward the moon just one day after launching into deep space. The translunar injection burn, ...

For the first time since 1972, astronauts are on their way into deep space as part of NASA’s Artemis II mission. The mission sees the Orion spacecraft carrying four astronauts to the moon, where they ...

The Orion spacecraft that’s taking the four Artemis II astronauts around the moon and back is the largest crewed capsule ever sent beyond low Earth orbit – with habitable space roughly equal to that ...

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Fla.—This will be the third time I have observed NASA’s Orion spacecraft take flight. But with this one, for the first time, am I genuinely hopeful about the future of the space ...

Cyndi Young with Orion Samuelson in WGN studio circa 1984 I went digging through my files last week and found something I wrote in August of 2003. Back then, I was reflecting on a man who had already ...