National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Artemis II
SUCCESS
✓ Mission success
On 01 APR · 22:35 UTC 2026, Space Launch System Block 1 delivered Artemis II to Lunar flyby.
- T-0 (flown)
- 01 APR · 22:35 UTC
- Window
- 2 hr
- Rocket
- Space Launch System Block 1
- Operator
- National Aeronautics and Space Administration
- Pad
- Launch Complex 39B · Kennedy Space Center, FL, USA
- Payload
- Artemis II
- Orbit
- Lunar flyby
Mission
Artemis II is the first crewed mission as part of the Artemis program. Artemis II will send a crew of 4 - 3 Americans and 1 Canadian around the moon and return them back to Earth. The mission will test the core systems of NASA's Orion spacecraft including the critical life support system, among other systems which could not be tested during Artemis I due to the lack of crew onboard.