Completed · Success
NASA's Artemis II was a crewed lunar flyby around the Moon and back to Earth with four astronauts in April 2026.
- Destinations
- Launch vehicle
- SLS (Space Launch System)
- Launch site
- Launch Pad 39B at Kennedy Space Center, Florida
- Countries
- United States
- Mission types
- Crewed, Flyby
Chronology
Mission timeline
Mission architecture
Vehicles
Orion · Spacecraft
Destinations: Moon
European Service Module · Other
Interim Cryogenic Propulsion Stage · Other
Trajectory record
Time-dependent navigation trajectory
Source states place the model at the selected time. Reconstructed flight, estimates, predictions and historical mission plans are identified by interval; gaps remain visible.
Source records and sampling assumptions are retained with the repository data. Model attitude and surface appearance are illustrative.
- Orion: Physically reconstructed based on publicly available data · NASA/JSC postflight BET revF · five estimated source-gap intervals · post-ICPS through entry interface · April 2, 2026 to April 10, 2026
Provenance
Sources
Each source is listed once and labeled with the mission, event, trajectory, or destination/body context it supports.
Data verified through October 5, 2026
- Artemis II: NASA's First Crewed Lunar Flyby in 50 Years - NASA — NASAMission page · Supports: mission claims
- Liftoff! NASA Launches Astronauts on Historic Artemis Moon Mission - NASA — NASAOther · Supports: mission claims · event claims
- Artemis II Flight Day 6: Crew Wraps Historic Lunar Flyby - NASA — NASAOther · Supports: mission claims · event claims
- Artemis II Flight Day 10: Live Re-Entry Updates - NASA — NASAOther · Supports: mission claims · event claims
- Orion Reference Guide — crew module, service module, launch and recovery systems — NASATechnical document · Supports: mission claims
- Artemis II post-mission Best Estimated Trajectory revision F — NAIF source comments — NAIFSpice · Supports: mission claims
- DE421 lunar mean-Earth and principal-axes frame specification — NAIFTechnical document · Supports: destination/body context
- DE440 lunar mean-Earth and principal-axes frame specification — NAIFSpice · Supports: destination/body context
- IAU rotational elements and body radii (PCK 00011) — NAIFSpice · Supports: destination/body context
- LOLA global lunar height maps, LDEM_4 V3 original PDS source label — NASATechnical document · Supports: destination/body context
- LOLA 2023 south-polar elevation, uncertainty and effective-resolution maps — NASATechnical document · Supports: destination/body context
- Blue Ghost Lunar Lander Seen From Above: LROC site and terrain context — NASATechnical document · Supports: destination/body context
- Moon Facts — NASAOther · Supports: destination/body context
- SLDEM2015 Blue Ghost region: original PDS elevation-grid label — NASATechnical document · Supports: destination/body context
- JPL Solar System Dynamics Astrodynamic Parameters — JPLOther · Supports: destination/body context
- Planet Sizes and Locations in Our Solar System — NASAOther · Supports: destination/body context