Space And Spaceflight News

Artemis II Sets Course for Historic Lunar Return and Milestones

Artemis II will launch NASA's first crewed lunar mission aboard the SLS/Orion stack, sending four astronauts on a lunar flyby with a free-return trajectory to roughly 250,000 miles from Earth—the farthest humans have traveled since Apollo—potentially setting a new high-velocity reentry record and marking historic firsts for a woman, a person of color, and a Canadian on a lunar mission.