As NASA prepares for its Artemis II mission, a groundbreaking lunar laser communications test is set to take place, signaling ...

NASA’s Artemis II mission, the first crewed flight in its lunar return program, set to launch in April 2026, has reached ...

NASA mission managers said Artemis II is targeting November 2024 as it goes through issues found from the Artemis I mission including an unexpected heat shield performance during the 5,000-degree ...

But Artemis II — the crewed flight test — will only last 10.5 days. After launch, Artemis II will travel on a highly elliptical orbit around Earth for one day, and following that, Orion will ...

Artemis II is currently targeted for late November 2024. (Lead Image showing ML-1 and the start of ML-2 at KSC via NSF Flyover – Max Evans). Artemis Artemis II EGS EM-2 mobile launcher NASA.

The Artemis II mission, humanity’s first crewed mission to the vicinity of the Moon since 1972, will wait longer to get off the ground. Originally planned for September 2025, ...

The Artemis II crew consists of pilot Victor Glover, commander Reid Wiseman, mission specialists Jeremy Hansen, of the Canadian Space Agency, and Christina Koch. Click to toggle navigation menu.

Wendy Whitman Cobb, Air University. On April 3, 2023, NASA announced the four astronauts who will make up the crew of Artemis II, which is scheduled to launch in late 2024. The Artemis II mission ...

Artemis II is estimated to launch "no earlier than Sept. 2025," according to NASA, with the crew becoming the second ever to travel beyond low Earth orbit, and the first since Apollo 17 in 1972.

Artemis II stands out from the other missions in its series in that the Orion main engine will carry out the translunar injection burn, rather than the ICPS, ...

The Artemis II mission will build on Artemis I, an uncrewed test mission that sent NASA’s Orion capsule on a 1.4 million-mile voyage to lap the moon that concluded in December.

Publicly, NASA continues to say Artemis II will launch in 2024, which would require turning the avionics boxes in 24 months or less. Asked if 2024 was doable, Hu offered an aspirational response.