Artemis II – Updates and Mission Resources
NASA’s Artemis II Crew is currently at Kennedy Space Center where they are quarantining ahead of next week’s launch window that opens on April 1st. Below are Artemis II resources providing additional information and updates about the mission.
- Launch Countdown Timeline: NASA Releases Artemis II Moon Mission Launch Countdown – NASA
- NASA TV Coverage Schedule for all flight days of mission: NASA Sets Coverage for Artemis II Moon Mission – NASA
- Detailed Event Broadcast Schedule for all flight days of mission: artemis-ii-broadcast-schedule-march-26-2026.xls
- Crew’s Daily Mission Agenda: NASA’s Artemis II Moon Mission Daily Agenda
In addition, here’s a YouTube link highlighting contributions to the Artemis II mission by NASA’s Langley Research Center: https://youtu.be/gKLH1x-StoA.
As part of a Golden Age of innovation and exploration, Artemis II is another step toward new U.S.-crewed missions on the Moon’s surface that will help the agency prepare to send the first astronauts – Americans – to Mars. The Artemis II test flight is the first crewed mission under NASA’s Artemis program. Under Artemis, NASA will send astronauts on increasingly difficult missions to explore more of the Moon for scientific discovery, economic benefits, and to build on our foundation for the first crewed missions to Mars.
During the test flight, four astronauts – NASA’s Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, and Christina Koch, and CSA (Canadian Space Agency) astronaut Jeremy Hansen – will conduct an approximately 10-day mission around the Moon. The crew represents the best of humanity – explorers daring to forge new frontiers in space. This mission will send astronauts farther from Earth than any human has ever been, and it’ll be the first to take humans to deep space in more than 50 years since NASA’s Apollo Program. Science investigations during the test flight will assess how the crew responds to the deep space environment during future missions as we explore the Moon and travel to Mars.
The Artemis II mission is a test flight designed to enable NASA to test and learn about systems needed to keep astronauts safe on their journey to and from the Moon, including Orion’s life support systems never tested in space with humans before. At the conclusion of the test flight, the crew members will splashdown in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of San Diego, where a NASA and Department of War team will extract them from Orion and transport them back to a U.S. Navy ship ahead of their return to land.
Hope you are able to watch some or all of this historic crewed test launch with the resources included above.
GO ARTEMIS II!!
