Overview
- NASA says February 6 is only the opening of the launch window, with Artemis II having multiple opportunities from February through April 2026.
- Members of the public can generate a virtual boarding pass and have their names stored digitally on a drive that will fly inside the Orion spacecraft.
- The four-person crew comprises NASA astronauts Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover and Christina Koch, plus Canadian Space Agency astronaut Jeremy Hansen.
- Hansen is slated to become the first non‑U.S. astronaut to travel toward the Moon on an Artemis mission.
- The mission will follow a figure‑eight trajectory to about 7,400 kilometers beyond the Moon and conclude with splashdown off San Diego, supporting tests of life‑support and other deep‑space systems for future lunar landings and Mars preparation.