Artemis II: First Crewed Lunar Mission Since 1972

Artemis II launched from Kennedy Space Center carrying astronauts Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, Christina Koch, and Canadian Space Agency astronaut Jeremy Hansen on a ten-day lunar flyby mission aboard the SLS rocket and Orion spacecraft. The crew completed a close pass of the Moon on April 6, the first humans to fly beyond low Earth orbit since Apollo 17 in December 1972, and the first time a non-American astronaut has travelled to the Moon.