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Artemis II
NASA · CSA · Launch: April 2026
First crewed flight of SLS and Orion: four astronauts flew around the Moon — the first since 1972.
Objective: Validate Orion's life support with a crew aboard ahead of a lunar landing.
Mission details
- Rocket & spacecraft
- SLS + Orion
- Crew
- Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, Christina Koch (NASA) and Jeremy Hansen (CSA)
- Destination
- Lunar flyby (free-return trajectory)
- Duration
- ~10 days
- First woman, first person of colour and first non-American on a lunar mission.
Milestones
3 of 3 reachedLaunch
Apr 2026
Lunar flyby
Apr 2026
Splashdown
Apr 2026
Future dates are agency targets, not confirmed schedules.
Curated dataset
Official source: NASA Artemis II →