Astronauts Prepare for Historic Moon Mission

NASA is on the brink of launching the Artemis II mission, marking the first time in over half a century that astronauts will journey to the moon.

The four-person crew—NASA astronauts Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, and Christina Koch, along with Canadian Space Agency astronaut Jeremy Hansen—will embark on a 10-day flight aboard the powerful new Space Launch System rocket and Orion capsule, venturing farther from Earth than any humans in history.

While they will not land on the lunar surface, this critical mission is designed to test spacecraft systems and pave the way for the Artemis III moon landing planned for later this decade.

The diverse crew itself makes history, including the first woman, the first person of color, and the first Canadian ever sent on a lunar mission.

As the astronauts complete final preparations and enter pre-launch quarantine, they carry the hopes of inspiring a new “Artemis Generation” to see the moon not as a past achievement, but as a current and future destination for human exploration.