US EditionNASA’s Upcoming Mission Is Offering to ‘Send Your Name Around the Moon’
Artemis II will test spacecraft systems with four astronauts on a 10-day mission that includes a public name-submission onboard an SD card, NASA said.
- On February 6, NASA is preparing to launch Artemis II from Launch Complex 39 at NASA's Kennedy Space Center, Florida, targeting an approximately 10-day mission no later than April 2026.
- The mission will test humans flying aboard NASA's Space Launch System rocket and validate Orion spacecraft's crewed operations while carrying scientific payloads on space radiation, human health and behaviour, and space communications for future crewed lunar landings under the Artemis program.
- During the flight, astronauts will orbit Earth for the first two days to check Orion's systems, then perform a translunar injection burn for a four-day outbound journey around the far side of the Moon following a figure-eight trajectory over 230,000 miles.
- The crew includes Reid Wiseman, NASA astronaut, Victor Glover, NASA astronaut, Christina Koch, NASA astronaut, and Jeremy Hansen, Canadian Space Agency astronaut, while NASA is collecting public names on an SD card aboard Orion and issuing Artemis II boarding passes.
- As NASA's first crewed Moon mission since Apollo 17 in 1972, Artemis II is NASA's first crewed Moon mission in over 50 years and will prepare NASA for future crewed lunar landings under the Artemis program.
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