Artemis Successfully Completed Lunar Flyby

We were there when mission control ... to my old neighbourhood,” said Lovell, who piloted the 1968 Apollo 8 mission that was the first to fly humans around the Moon, just as Artemis II is doing today....

... Meet the astronauts who ventured 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.

Once aboard, the astronauts will undergo post‑mission medical evaluations before returning to shore where awaiting aircraft will take them to NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston. ... Artemis II will travel around the Moon but will not ...

NASA’s SLS (Space Launch System) rocket and Orion spacecraft lifted off from Launch Pad 39B at the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida at 6:35 p.m. EDT on April 1, sending the four astronauts on a planned 10-day test flight around the Moon and back. After reaching space, Orion deployed its four solar array wings, enabling the spacecraft to receive energy from the Sun, while the crew and engineers on the ground immediately began transitioning the spacecraft from launch to flight operations to start checking out key systems. About 49 minutes into the test flight, the SLS rocket’s upper stage fired to put Orion into an elliptical orbit around Earth.

Isaacman, announced in February, Artemis III will not head to the moon as previously planned. Instead, it will remain in orbit around Earth, allowing astronauts to practice docking with one or both of the spacecraft that are in development for ...

NASA’s Artemis II crew received a call from President Trump, who congratulated them for the successful lunar flyby.CreditCredit...Cassandra Klos for The New York Times ... Source: NASA AROW. On the sixth day, 248,655 miles from Earth, four people ventured farther from home than any human being who has ever lived. Embraced by the moon’s gravitational pull, four astronauts accelerated Monday afternoon on a path to swing around the lunar far side, five days after launching on the Artemis II mission from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

Artemis II didn't land on the moon or even orbit it. But it broke Apollo 13's distance record and marked the farthest that humans have ever journeyed from Earth when the crew reached 252,756 miles (406,771 kilometers).