#artemis-2

NASA’s Artemis 2 mission has turned an unglamorous subsystem into a public talking point, underscoring how human spaceflight depends on mundane hardware working flawlessly far from Earth.

NASA's Artemis 2 astronauts reported a burning smell near Orion's hygiene bay after the mission passed the halfway point to the moon, but Mission Control said it was not overly concerned and continued evaluating the odor

NASA’s Artemis 2 crew is heading toward the moon, marking humanity’s first crewed journey to lunar space since Apollo 17 in December 1972 and highlighting how funding and political urgency shaped the long pause.

NASA’s Artemis 2 astronauts photographed Earth from Orion after a crucial engine burn sent the mission out of Earth orbit and toward the moon.

With Orion’s translunar injection burn complete, Artemis 2 has become the first crewed mission to leave low-Earth orbit since the Apollo era.

NASA’s Artemis 2 mission completed its critical translunar injection burn, sending Orion and its crew out of Earth orbit and toward the moon.

NASA’s Artemis 2 crew is safely in Earth orbit after launch, but the mission’s defining test on April 2 is the translunar injection burn that will send Orion toward the moon.

NASA is preparing to launch Artemis 2 on April 1, 2026, sending four astronauts around the Moon on the agency’s first crewed mission beyond low Earth orbit in more than five decades.

NASA is preparing to launch four astronauts on the 10-day Artemis 2 lunar mission on April 1, with agency officials stressing that the schedule is serious despite the date.

As Artemis 2 prepares to send humans beyond Earth’s protective magnetic environment, NASA’s Orion capsule includes a radiation monitoring and shelter plan for the possibility of a severe solar storm.

As NASA prepares for Artemis 2, the mission’s basic figures reveal the scale, cost, and symbolism of sending astronauts around the Moon for the first time since Apollo.

As the Artemis 2 crew arrives in Florida for an April 1 launch attempt, NASA is tying the mission to a wider restructuring that emphasizes lunar surface operations over a Moon-orbiting outpost.

NASA says Artemis 2 remains on schedule for an April 1 launch window, with agency officials reporting no technical issues currently threatening the first crewed moon mission of the Artemis era.

Artemis 2 astronaut Victor Glover says the moon mission should engage people who do not usually follow spaceflight, framing the program as a public-facing effort rather than a milestone exercise alone.

NASA astronaut Christina Koch says Artemis 2 is moving ahead with urgency as she prepares to become the first woman to travel beyond low Earth orbit on the mission’s round-the-moon flight.

NASA’s first crewed lunar mission since Apollo is approaching the pad, and commander Reid Wiseman is presenting it less as spectacle than as a disciplined, high-stakes operational job.

When Artemis 2 flies its planned 10-day lunar mission, NASA’s astronauts will have access to a private bathroom inside Orion, a sharp contrast with Apollo-era waste systems that offered little privacy.

NASA’s Artemis 2 astronauts are deep into simulations, launch rehearsals, and spacecraft operations training as the agency prepares for humanity’s first crewed mission around the moon in decades.

NASA will roll its Space Launch System rocket carrying the Artemis 2 crew back to Kennedy Space Center's launch pad on March 20, maintaining an April 1 target for the first crewed lunar mission since Apollo 17 in 1972.

NASA has about three weeks to complete repairs to the Space Launch System's upper stage before the next Artemis 2 launch window opens in early April. The agency rolled the rocket back to the Vehicle Assembly Building after a helium flow problem that couldn't be diagnosed at the launch pad.