NASA's Artemis II Moon Mission: Astronauts Visit Crew Spacecraft | NASA Kennedy

NASA's Artemis II Moon Mission: Astronauts Visit Crew Spacecraft | NASA Kennedy

From left are: Jeremy Hansen (Canada), mission specialist; Victor Glover, pilot; Reid Wiseman, commander; and Christina Hammock Koch, mission specialist

From left are: Victor Glover, pilot; Reid Wiseman, commander; Christina Hammock Koch, mission specialist; and Jeremy Hansen (Canada), mission specialist

The European Service Module (ESM) for NASA’s Artemis II mission is shown inside Kennedy Space Center’s Neil Armstrong Operations and Checkout Building on Aug. 8, 2023

The Artemis II crew—NASA astronauts Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, Christina Hammock Koch, and Canadian Space Agency astronaut Jeremy Hansen—visited the Neil Armstrong Operations and Checkout Building at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center (KSC) in Florida on Aug. 8, 2023. The crew module is undergoing acoustic testing ahead of integration with the European Service Module. Artemis II is the first crewed mission on NASA’s path to establishing a long-term lunar presence for science and exploration under Artemis. 

Artemis II will be NASA’s first crewed flight test of the Space Launch System rocket and Orion spacecraft around the Moon to verify today’s capabilities for humans to explore deep space and pave the way for long-term exploration and science on the lunar surface.

Artemis II will launch no earlier than December 2024.

Learn more about the Artemis II Mission:

https://www.nasa.gov/artemis-ii

Image Credit: NASA/Kim Shiflett

Image Date: August 8, 2023

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