Mission concept · Lunar Exploration · Planned

Artemis II

The first crewed flight of NASA's Artemis program — a crew of four flying around the Moon and back aboard Orion, the first humans beyond low Earth orbit since 1972.

Lunar Exploration NASA Target: The Moon

Highlights

›The first crew beyond low Earth orbit since Apollo

Mission goals

›Fly the first crew around the Moon since Apollo
›Demonstrate the Orion spacecraft with astronauts aboard

Technology

Space Launch System and the crewed Orion spacecraft.

Status & uncertainties

Schedule depends on hardware readiness and Orion life-support checkout; it is a free-return flyby, not a landing.

Artemis program

Knowledge connections

Member of groupLunar Exploration
Associated withNASA
Associated withThe Moon
Associated withArtemis program

Sources

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NASANational Aeronautics and Space Administration
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