NASA recently announced that it’s targeting April 1 for the launch of its highly anticipated lunar-bound mission, Artemis II.
Inside the Orion spacecraft lifted to space by the powerful SLS rocket will be NASA astronauts Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, and Christina Koch, together with CSA (Canadian Space Agency) astronaut Jeremy Hansen.
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Orion won’t touch down on the lunar surface but instead fly around the moon in a mission set to last 10 days from launch to splashdown.
As they become the first humans to fly to the moon in more than five decades, the crew won’t simply be sitting back and admiring the views (though they’ll definitely be doing a bit of that). They’ll be checking out the spacecraft systems alongside a whole host of other carefully planned activities designed to confirm the Orion’s readiness for operational lunar flights.
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