Artemis II crew suited up for lunar flyby as four orange spacesuits are prepped

Space.com reports four orange Artemis II spacesuits are staged in the Kennedy Space Center suit-up room as NASA readies a 10‑day lunar flyby aboard the Orion spacecraft. The suits are designed to protect astronauts inside Orion during launch, ascent, in‑space contingencies and reentry, not for walking on the Moon. The crew—Commander Reid Wiseman, Pilot Victor Glover, Christina Koch (NASA) and Jeremy Hansen (CSA)—will have their suit fittings and connections checked in a controlled sequence to validate life‑support interfaces ahead of future missions like Artemis III and IV.