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NASA’s Artemis 2 crew is preparing for a seven-hour moon flyby on April 6, marking the first close human encounter with the moon in more than 50 years.

NASA’s Artemis 2 crew entered the moon’s sphere of influence on April 6, a milestone that marks humanity’s return to lunar space more than five decades after the Apollo era.

As Artemis 2 approaches its lunar flyby, the crew is reporting unexpected surface detail, conducting suit checks, and preparing for observations on the moon’s far side.

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 II mission is underway, sending four astronauts around the Moon and back on an approximately 10-day test flight designed to validate Orion’s performance in deep space.

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

NASA has released the first downlinked images from the Artemis II crew, including a photograph of Earth taken from Orion after the mission's translunar injection burn.

NASA says Orion has completed the burn that sent Artemis II out of Earth orbit, putting four astronauts on the first crewed lunar flyby mission since Apollo.

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 II mission has launched with four astronauts aboard Orion, beginning the first crewed lunar mission in more than five decades and a major test flight for future moon return plans.

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’s Artemis II mission lifted off from Kennedy Space Center on April 1, starting a roughly 10-day crewed test flight around the Moon and marking the first astronaut voyage beyond low Earth orbit in more than 50 years.

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.

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 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.

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.