Having just looped around the moon in a historic flyby of our nearest neighbor, the Artemis II crew are now on their way back to Earth.
NASA’s Victor Glover, Reid Wiseman, and Christina Koch, along with the Canadian Space Agency’s Jeremy Hansen, launched aboard the Orion spacecraft from the Kennedy Space Center on April 1, lifted to space by the mighty SLS rocket.
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The mission is on course to last 10 days, culminating in a splashdown off the coast of California.
Artemis II is testing out the systems of the Orion in preparation for a crewed lunar landing in the Artemis IV mission, currently set for 2028. Artemis III, which could happen next year, will test a crucial docking procedure that will pave the way for the Artemis IV lunar landing.
With the mission so far going to plan — save for a few issues
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