Artemis II
Artemis II was a crewed flyby of the Moon. It was the first crewed flight of the NASA-led Artemis program and the first crewed flight beyond low Earth orbit since Apollo 17 in 1972. Artemis II was the second flight of the Space Launch System (SLS) and the first crewed flight of the Orion spacecraft, named Integrity by the four-person crew.
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Artemis II was a crewed mission that flew astronauts around the Moon for the first time since 1972, marking NASA's return to human exploration beyond Earth's orbit. The mission tested the Space Launch System rocket and Orion spacecraft—key vehicles designed to eventually land humans on the Moon again as part of the broader Artemis program.
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- Official website
- www.nasa.gov/mission/artemis-ii
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- Artemis II Launch (NHQ202604010307).jpg
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- Artemis 2
- UTC date of spacecraft launch
- 2026-04-01
- described at URL
- www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cdj7e11pw10o
- UTC date of spacecraft landing
- 2026-04-11
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Artemis II (April 1–11, 2026) was a crewed flyby of the Moon. It was the first crewed flight beyond low Earth orbit since Apollo 17 in 1972, the first crewed flight of the NASA-led Artemis program, the first crewed flight of the Space Launch System (SLS), and the first crewed flight of the Orion spacecraft, named Integrity by the four-person crew.
The mission was a test flight supporting the Artemis IV mission to return humans to the lunar surface. Originally designated Exploration Mission-2 (EM-2) and intended to support the canceled Asteroid Redirect Mission, its objectives were revised after the establishment of the Artemis program in 2017. The mission's primary goal was to validate the Orion spacecraft's systems, crew operations, and mission procedures ahead of sustained lunar exploration in future Artemis missions. Artemis II's mission objectives were similar to those of Apollo 8 in 1968, the first crewed lunar flight of the Apollo program, while its free-return trajectory resembled that flown by Apollo 13 in 1970.