There is a lot going on right now on the @Space_Station, but fortunately we are all safe and witnessed a spectacular southern aurora show yesterday thanks to a recent solar event.
Orbital launch no. 73 of 2026 🇺🇸🚀👥👤🇨🇦👤🌔
Artemis II | NASA | April 01 | 2224 UTC
@NASA to launch its first crewed Moon mission in over 53 years on its SLS Block 1🚀 on a trajectory around Earth's satellite with humans reaching farther into space than ever before from @NASAKennedy LC-39B, Cape Canaveral, Florida.
Crew:
🇺🇸 Gregory Reid Wiseman @astro_reid, NASA
🇺🇸 Victor Jerome Glover @AstroVicGlover, NASA
🇺🇸 Christina Hammock Koch @Astro_Christina, NASA
🇨🇦 Jeremy Roger Hansen @Astro_Jeremy, CSA
Artemis II will send the four astronauts on the first crewed Orion spacecraft on a Multi-Trans-Lunar Injection (MTLI) with multiple burns and a free-return trajectory.
Orion enters a high Earth orbit (~24-hour period) where the crew checks out life support systems and conducts an in-space rendezvous and proximity operations demo using the spent Interim Cryogenic Propulsion Stage (ICPS) as a target.
At the next perigee, Orion fires its main engine to complete the Trans-Lunar Injection (TLI) burn, sending it on the lunar free-return path before returning to Earth.
The Artemis II astronauts placed a micro SD card carrying the names of 5.6 million people (who submitted them online between last September and March 27) inside Rise, their zero-gravity indicator, earlier today
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Organ chips containing @NASAArtemis II crew cells will fly side-by-side with astronauts around the Moon.
The goal: understand the impacts of deep space radiation and microgravity on individual health.
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In just a few days, we'll be sending humans on a flight around the Moon. Have you watched our documentary series on the mission?
Watch Moonbound before Artemis II lifts off: https://t.co/ZR60WWIumd
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