NASA’s Artemis II Launches Astronauts to Circle the Moon and Return – 6:00pm ET Livestream Launch, April 1, 2026 | Sundance |

 

NASA’s Artemis II Launches Astronauts to Circle the Moon and Return – 6:00pm ET Livestream Launch

April 1, 2026 | Sundance |

Today NASA is once again sending astronauts around the Moon for the first time in 50 years. NASA’s Artemis II mission is scheduled to lift off from Kennedy Space Center today. The two-hour launch window starts at 6:24 p.m. EDT (2224 UTC).

Livestream Links are Below:

NASA's Artemis II Crew Launches To The Moon (Official Broadcast)

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Four astronauts — three from NASA and one from the CSA (Canadian Space Agency) — make up the Artemis II crew:
– NASA astronaut Reid Wiseman, Artemis II commander
– NASA astronaut Victor Glover, Artemis II pilot
– NASA astronaut Christina Koch, Artemis II mission specialist
– Canadian Space Agency (CSA) astronaut Jeremy Hansen, Artemis II mission specialist

After launching into space atop NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS) rocket, the crew will journey around the Moon and back in their Orion spacecraft, named Integrity, on an approximately 10-day mission. Artemis II will be the first crewed flight test of SLS and Orion, testing the technologies we’ll need for long-term lunar exploration and human missions to Mars.