Artemis II: News, features, and facts about the NASA moon mission

Artemis II is NASA’s first crewed spaceflight Artemis Program — a long-term campaign that aims to send humans back to the Moon for the first time since 1972.

Launched into orbit by the 322-foot-tall (98-meter) Space Launch System and the Orion crew capsule stack, the mission’s four-astronaut crew will complete a 10-day flight around the Moon and back to Earth, testing key systems and studying the impact of spaceflight on human biology. This record-breaking flight will send humans further into space than ever before.

Following a major overhaul of the Artemis program As of late February, NASA now aims to ramp up its Artemis missions to an annual pace, with Artemis III – an Earth-orbiting test of a lunar lander – falling in 2027. If successful, NASA will follow the Artemis IV and V missions, two crewed Moon landing attempts, in 2028. Stay tuned for updates on this developing spaceflight story.