NASA
ARTEMIS II
FIRST CREWED LUNAR MISSION IN OVER 50 YEARS
T-MINUS
INITIALIZING...
TARGET: Wednesday, April 1, 2026 | NET (No Earlier Than)
T-6h
Propellant tanking begins
T-3h
Crew suit-up
T-2h
Crew departs for pad
T-1h
Crew ingress Orion
T-30m
Terminal countdown
T-10m
Final GO/NO-GO polls
T-31s
Automated sequence
T-0
LIFTOFF
BACKUP LAUNCH WINDOWS
Apr 2
Apr 3
Apr 4
Apr 5
Apr 6
CREW
4
Astronauts
DURATION
~10
Days
DISTANCE
~392K
km from Earth
TO THE MOON
384K
km remaining
SINCE APOLLO 17
Years
Launch Pad 39B Weather
Kennedy Space Center, Florida
TEMPERATURE
19.6°C
WIND
27.7 km/h
Gusts: 61.2 km/h
CLOUD COVER
100%
WIND VS LAUNCH LIMIT GO
0 km/h Limit: 72 km/h
CONDITIONS
Overcast
WEATHER GO
SOLAR WEATHER (Kp)
1.7
QUIET
5-DAY FORECAST
Wed
23°
19°
36.5km/h
Thu
22°
19°
29.9km/h
Fri
24°
19°
18.7km/h
Sat
25°
20°
20.1km/h
Sun
26°
20°
20.7km/h
Updated 0m ago
GO / NO-GO
Mission Readiness Assessment
100%
ALL SYSTEMS GO
MISSION READINESS
WEATHER
GO AUTO
SOLAR WEATHER
GO AUTO
VEHICLE
GO GROUND SYSTEMS
GO CREW HEALTH
GO RANGE SAFETY
GO FLIGHT SOFTWARE
GO RECOVERY WEATHER
GO The Mission
Artemis II will send four astronauts around the Moon aboard the Orion spacecraft, launched by the Space Launch System (SLS) rocket. It will be the first crewed mission to venture beyond low-Earth orbit since Apollo 17 in December 1972.
The ~10 day mission will fly a free-return trajectory, swinging around the far side of the Moon at an altitude of approximately 7,600 km above the lunar surface, reaching a maximum distance of ~392,000 km from Earth.
Historic Firsts
First woman beyond low-Earth orbit
Christina Koch
First person of color beyond low-Earth orbit
Victor Glover
First non-American on a lunar mission
Jeremy Hansen (CSA, Canada)
First humans beyond LEO since 1972
53+ years since Apollo 17
NASA TV — LIVE STREAM
RETURN TO THE MOON
First crewed mission beyond LEO
since Apollo 17 — December 19, 1972
YEARS SINCE APOLLO 17
53.3
DAYS SINCE APOLLO 17
19,469
THE ROAD TO ARTEMIS
1968 Apollo 8
1969 Apollo 11
1972 Apollo 17
2022 Artemis I
2025 Artemis II
53.3+
years since Apollo 17
4
crew vs 3 on Apollo
1st
woman beyond LEO
1st
person of color beyond LEO