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Names | Artemis 2 Exploration Mission-2 (EM-2) |
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Mission type | Crewed lunar flyby |
Operator | NASA |
Mission duration | 10 days (planned) |
Spacecraft properties | |
Spacecraft | Orion CM-003 |
Crew | |
Crew size | 4 |
Members | Reid Wiseman Victor Glover Christina Koch Jeremy Hansen |
Start of mission | |
Launch date | September 2025 (planned)[1] |
Rocket | Space Launch System Block 1 |
Launch site | Kennedy Space Center, LC-39B[2] |
End of mission | |
Recovered by | U.S. Navy (San Antonio-class amphibious transport dock) |
Landing site | Pacific Ocean (planned) |
Flyby of Moon | |
Distance | 6,400 mi (10,300 km) (planned)[3] |
Official Crew Portrait (Clockwise from left) Koch, Glover, Hansen, Wiseman |
Artemis 2 (officially Artemis II)[4] is a scheduled mission of the NASA-led Artemis program. It will use the second launch of the Space Launch System (SLS) and include the first crewed mission of the Orion spacecraft. The mission is scheduled for no earlier than September 2025.[1] Four astronauts will perform a flyby of the Moon and return to Earth, becoming the first crew to travel beyond low Earth orbit since Apollo 17 in 1972. Artemis 2 will be the first crewed launch from Launch Complex 39B of the Kennedy Space Center since STS-116 in 2006.
Originally designated Exploration Mission-2 (EM-2), the mission was intended to collect samples from a captured asteroid in lunar orbit by the now-cancelled robotic Asteroid Redirect Mission;[5] it was renamed after the introduction of the Artemis program.
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