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| Names |
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|---|---|
| Mission type | Crewed lunar flyby |
| Operator | NASA |
| Mission duration | 10 days (planned) |
| Spacecraft properties | |
| Spacecraft | Orion CM-003 |
| Crew | |
| Crew size | 4 |
| Members | |
| Start of mission | |
| Launch date | September 2025 (planned)[1] |
| Rocket | Space Launch System Block 1 |
| Launch site | Kennedy Space Center, LC-39B[2] |
| End of mission | |
| Recovered by | U.S. Navy (San Antonio-class amphibious transport dock) |
| Landing site | Pacific Ocean (planned) |
| Flyby of Moon | |
| Distance | 6,400 mi (10,300 km) (planned)[3] |
 Official crew portrait, clockwise from left: Koch, Glover, Hansen and Wiseman | |
Artemis II is a scheduled mission of the NASA-led Artemis program. It will use the second launch of the Space Launch System (SLS) rocket and include the first crewed mission of the Orion spacecraft. The mission is scheduled for no earlier than September 2025.[1] Four astronauts will perform a flyby of the Moon and return to Earth, becoming the first crew to travel beyond low Earth orbit since Apollo 17 in 1972. Artemis II will be the first crewed launch from Launch Complex 39B of the Kennedy Space Center since STS-116 in 2006.
The launch was originally designated Exploration Mission-2 (EM-2) when the mission was intended to collect samples from a captured asteroid in lunar orbit by the now-cancelled robotic Asteroid Redirect Mission;[4] it was renamed after the introduction of the Artemis program.
- ^ a b Foust, Jeff (9 January 2024). "NASA delays Artemis 2 and 3 missions". SpaceNews. Retrieved 10 January 2024.
- ^ Hill, Bill (March 2012). "Exploration Systems Development Status" (PDF). NASA Advisory Council. Archived from the original on 11 February 2017. Retrieved 21 July 2012.
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