Artemis II
The mission
Artemis II is the first crewed mission as part of the Artemis program. Artemis II will send a crew of 4 - 3 Americans and 1 Canadian around the moon and return them back to Earth. The mission will test the core systems of NASA's Orion spacecraft including the critical life support system, among other systems which could not be tested during Artemis I due to the lack of crew onboard.
Mission timeline
Where it leaves Earth
Launch site
Ground vector
Launch Complex 39B
Kennedy Space Center, FL, USA
- Latitude
- 28.627°N
- Longitude
- 80.621°W
Can I see this?
Distance and a plain visibility call from a place you choose. Trajectory is not modeled — night launches travel farther across the sky than daylight ones.
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Range weather
Launch commit criteria
- Primary concern
- Cumulus Cloud Rule
- Rule count
- 2
- Temperature
- Not reported
- Surface wind
- Not reported
10:24 PM UTC – 12:24 AM UTC
Vehicle & provider
Schedule history
No meaningful launch-time or status changes recorded.