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The Artemis II mission, planned by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), is scheduled for launch in April 2026. It will mark the first crewed mission to travel around the Moon since the Apollo program ended in 1972. The mission forms an important step in NASA’s broader lunar exploration programme called the Artemis Program.
Mission Overview
Artemis II is a 10-day crewed lunar flyby mission in which astronauts will travel around the Moon and return to Earth without landing. The main objective is to test the human-rated capabilities of NASA’s new deep-space systems before attempting a lunar landing in the future Artemis III mission, which aims to place astronauts on the Moon’s south pole.
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Artemis II: NASA's crewed lunar flyby mission launching April 2026. First human Moon mission since Apollo. Tests Orion spacecraft and deep-space systems.
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