NASA's Artemis 2 mission — the first-ever crewed mission of the Orion capsule and Space Launch System (SLS) — is targeting a ...

NASA's Artemis 2 astronauts are gearing up for their planned 2026 moon launch by photographing an inflatable version of Earth ...

South Korea's KASA is just one international space agency that will fly cubesats on the mission; Germany's DLR will also ...

The Artemis 2 crew consists of NASA astronauts Reid Wiseman (commander), Victor Glover (pilot), Christina Koch (mission specialist) and the Canadian Space Agency's Jeremy Hansen.

When the Artemis 2 astronauts launch to the moon next year, they will be accompanied by one of 25 plush toys just named a ...

NASA and Freelancer announced on 15 August the 25 finalists in the “Moon Mascot: Artemis II ZGI Design Challenge.” The toy chosen will float inside Orion once microgravity begins.

Artemis 2 is scheduled to launch sometime in early 2026 — more than three years after the launch of Artemis 1, in November 2022. Artemis 1 sent an uncrewed Orion spacecraft into lunar orbit on a ...

Artemis 2 Expected to fly no earlier than September 2025, Artemis 2 will use the SLS to send a crew of four aboard an Orion spacecraft on a 10-day mission looping within 4,600 miles (7,400 km) of ...

This will be the first set of missions that NASA has used to send a crew to the moon since the Apollo 17 mission in December 1972, more than 50 years ago. In total, the Artemis expedition includes ...

NASA postpones 2 Artemis missions, including one to land humans on Moon in 2026 & 2027 due to issues with Orion spacecraft. Crew will now fly in 2026.