Artemis II, the first crewed flight of NASA's Space Launch System and Orion spacecraft, sent astronauts Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, Christina Koch and Jeremy Hansen on a roughly 10-day lunar flyby — the first crewed mission beyond low Earth orbit since Apollo 17.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- Lunar flyby
- Payload to orbit
- 25.8 T
- Flight
- 2nd
- of 2 Space Launch System Block 1 flights
- Date and time
- 1 April 2026, 22:35 UTC
- Builder
- Boeing / Northrop Grumman / Aerojet Rocketdyne / ULA
- Launch site
- Launch Complex 39B, Kennedy Space Center, FL, USA
- Payload
- Human Exploration
- International designator
- 2026-069
- Launches in 2026
- 73rd of 243
See it in orbit
Space Atlas shows the satellites and rocket stages from this launch in 3D.
Object pages on Space Atlas: Artemis 2 Orion
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