NASA Artemis II Moon Mission Orion Spacecraft Lifted to Vacuum Chamber

NASA Artemis II Moon Mission Orion Spacecraft Lifted to Vacuum Chamber

NASA’s Orion spacecraft on Thursday, Nov. 7, 2024, inside the altitude chamber of the Neil A. Armstrong Operations and Checkout building at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

A massive crane lifts NASA’s Orion spacecraft out of the Final Assembly and System Testing cell and moves it to the altitude chamber to complete further testing on Thursday, Nov. 7, 2024, inside the Neil A. Armstrong Operations and Checkout building at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The altitude chamber simulates deep space vacuum conditions, and the testing will provide additional data to augment data gained during testing earlier this summer. 

The Orion spacecraft will carry NASA astronauts Victor Glover, Christina Koch, and Reid Wiseman, as well as CSA (Canadian Space Agency) astronaut Jeremy Hansen, on a 10-day journey around the Moon and back for the Artemis II test flight.

The Artemis II test flight will be NASA’s first mission with crew under the Artemis campaign. It will launch no earlier than September 2025.

For more information about NASA's Orion spacecraft:

https://www.nasa.gov/humans-in-space/orion-spacecraft/

Check the NASA Artemis II Mission page for updates:

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

Image Credit: NASA/Kim Shiflett/Lockheed Martin/David Wellendorf

Image Date: Nov. 7, 2024

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