Live updates: Artemis II astronauts reach orbit What to know: The Artemis II mission has begun NASA’s lunar fly-around by four astronauts is the first trip to the moon in 53 years The 32-story Space Launch System rocket blasted off from Kennedy Space Center in Florida Artemis astronauts Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, Christina Koch and Jeremy Hansen will hurtle several thousand miles beyond the moon, hang a U-turn and then come straight
LIVE: Artemis II Launch Day Updates - NASA NASA’s Artemis II SLS (Space Launch System) rocket and Orion spacecraft lift off from Launch Complex 39B at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Wednesday, April 1, 2026 The Artemis II test flight will take NASA astronauts Commander Reid Wiseman, Pilot Victor Glover, and Mission Specialist Christina Koch, and CSA (Canadian Space Agency) astronaut Mission Specialist Jeremy Hansen, on
Artemis II Has Launched. Heres Everything You Need to Know The Kennedy Space Center was buzzing today in the run-up to the Artemis II launch in ways it hadn’t since the earliest days of the shuttle program or, further back, the Mercury, Gemini, and
Artemis II live updates: NASA administrator says astronauts are in . . . What to know about NASA's Artemis II moon mission Artemis II will make history, taking astronauts around the moon for the first time in more than 50 years The four-person crew will launch from NASA's Kennedy Space Center on Merritt Island, Florida, for a 10-day journey