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Artemis II will carry four astronauts on a historic lunar flyby, marking the first U.S.-Canadian crewed mission around the moon in over 50 years.
- On February 6, NASA could launch Artemis II from Kennedy Space Center with Commander Reid Wiseman, pilot Victor Glover, and mission specialists Christina Hammock Koch and Jeremy Hansen.
- NASA calls Artemis II a key step toward a 10-day trip testing life-support and control systems around the Moon, with Wiseman saying, `'When we get off the planet, we might come right back home, we might spend three or four days around Earth, we might go to the moon.'`
- The 322-foot Space Launch System rocket rolled about four miles from the Vehicle Assembly Building to the pad on Saturday and will loop around the Moon after a roughly four-day outbound trip, potentially reaching 257,000 miles and reentering at about 25,000 miles per hour.
- Space fans can watch Artemis II live on NASA's official YouTube channel and via the NASA+ app, while 34 global volunteers and about 47 ground assets spanning 14 countries track Orion's approximately 10-day journey.
- While pursuing the February launch window, NASA leadership stresses readiness and safety, committing to an April 2026 deadline as the Crew-11 medical evacuation left Chris Williams photographing Artemis II during last weekend rollout to the pad.
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Artemis II Detailed Mission Schedule as of January 24, 2026
The Artemis II mission represents a significant step in human spaceflight, designed as a crewed lunar flyby test flight. Based on schedule information accurate as of today, January 24, 2026, the mission is in its final preparatory stages before embarking on a 10-day journey that will take humans further into space than ever before. The schedule outlined here tracks the progression from current operations at the launch pad through launch, the lun…
On February 6, 2026, from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, NASA will launch the trajectory of the Artemis II mission, a space tour designed to take for the first time in more than half a century a human crew beyond low Earth orbit, surrounding the Moon and safely returning to Earth. The mission will last approximately 10 days and will use the Orion spacecraft driven by the SLS rocket, with the main objective of validating life support system…
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