Artemis II

Epic card · No. 12804

Artemis II (April 1–11, 2026) flew a crew of four on a flyby of the Moon. It was the first crewed flight of the NASA-led Artemis program, the only beyond low Earth orbit (LEO) since Apollo 17 in 1972, and the only beyond LEO not part of the Apollo program. It was also the first crewed flight of the Space Launch System and of the Orion spacecraft, which the crew named Integrity. The four crew members of Artemis II were Victor Glover, the only person of color, Christina Koch, the only woman, Canadian Space Agency astronaut Jeremy Hansen the only person not from the United States, and Reid Wiseman the oldest person to travel beyond low Earth orbit and around the Moon. During their lunar flyby, the crew broke Apollo 13's record of 248,655 miles (400,171 km) for the greatest human distance from Earth, reaching a maximum distance of 252,756 miles (406,771 km). The mission was a test flight supporting the Artemis IV mission to return humans to the lunar surface. Originally designated Exploration...

Read on Wikipedia · Image NASA, Public domain