Join Space Center Houston’s Artemis Watch Party for fun activities, giveaways, and more celebrating humanity’s next giant leap. Watch the livestream of NASA’s Artemis II mission launching to the Moon. Live coverage will be broadcast in the Main Plaza. Take part in this historic day and learn about the Artemis program.
This is a ticketed event. Tickets coming soon!
Artemis II builds on the success of the uncrewed Artemis I in 2022, and will demonstrate a broad range of capabilities needed on deep space missions. The Artemis II test flight will be NASA’s first mission with crew aboard the SLS (Space Launch System) rocket and Orion spacecraft.
Four astronauts have been selected for NASA’s Artemis II mission: Commander Reid Wiseman, pilot Victor Glover, and mission specialist Christina Koch from NASA, and mission specialist Jeremy Hansen from the Canadian Space Agency.
Artemis II will be NASA’s first crewed flight test of the Space Launch System rocket and Orion spacecraft around the Moon to verify today’s capabilities for humans to explore deep space and pave the way for long-term exploration and science on the lunar surface.
MISSION TYPE | Crewed Lunar Flyby
CREW SIZE | 4
LAUNCH | No later than April 2026
MISSION DURATION | 10 days
Reid Wiseman | Commander, NASA
Victor Glover | Pilot, NASA
Christina Koch | Mission Specialist, NASA
Jeremy Hansen | Mission Specialist, Canadian Space Agency
Meet the four astronauts who will venture around the Moon on Artemis II, the first crewed flight aboard NASA’s human deep space capabilities, paving the way for future lunar surface missions.
The Artemis II mission will launch the crew of four astronauts from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Block 1 configuration of the Space Launch System (SLS) rocket.
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