Artemis 2

NASA is seeking design ideas from global creators for a zero gravity indicator that will fly aboard the agency’s Artemis II test flight. Zero gravity indicators are small, plush items carried aboard spacecraft to provide a visual indication of when the spacecraft and its crew reach space. This opportunity, with a submission deadline of May […]

Posted March 7, 2025

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Kennedy Space Center

Missions

Orion Multi-Purpose Crew Vehicle

Engineers Install Orion Solar Array Wings for Artemis II

Technicians with ESA (European Space Agency) and Airbus installed the four solar array wings on NASA’s Orion spacecraft for Artemis II on March 3. The solar array wings, attached to the service module, deploy after Orion reaches space to power the spacecraft.

Posted March 6, 2025

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Space Launch System (SLS)

Artemis II Rocket Booster Stacking Complete

Engineers at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida completed stacking the twin SLS (Space Launch System) solid rocket boosters – seen in this Feb. 19, 2025, photo – inside the Vehicle Assembly Building for the agency’s Artemis II crewed test flight around the Moon. During stacking operations, which began Nov.

Posted February 20, 2025

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Common Exploration Systems Development Division

Exploration Systems Development Mission Directorate

Kennedy Space Center

Space Launch System (SLS)

NASA Invites Media to Artemis II Moon Mission Activities at Kennedy

Media are invited to visit NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, to capture imagery of the agency’s Artemis II Orion spacecraft and twin SLS (Space Launch System) solid rocket boosters for the first crewed Artemis mission around the Moon. The event is targeted for Friday, March 7. Subject matter experts from NASA and industry partners […]

Posted February 12, 2025

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Stacking Artemis II

NASA’s iconic “worm” insignia stands out in this photo taken on Jan. 24, 2025, as engineers and technicians prepared to lift the left center center booster segment for the agency’s SLS (Space Launch System) rocket. The boosters will help support the remaining rocket components and the Orion spacecraft during final assembly of the Artemis II […]

Posted February 3, 2025

Orion Multi-Purpose Crew Vehicle

Artemis

Artemis 2

Orion Program

How to Fly NASA’s Orion Spacecraft

On NASA’s Artemis II test flight, the first crewed mission under the agency’s Artemis campaign, astronauts will take the controls of the Orion spacecraft and periodically fly it manually during the flight around the Moon and back.

Posted January 28, 2025

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Exploration Ground Systems

Kennedy Space Center

Space Launch System (SLS)

Artemis II Stacking Operations Update

Teams with NASA’s Exploration Ground Systems Program continue stacking the SLS (Space Launch System) rocket’s twin solid rocket booster motor segments for the agency’s Artemis II mission, inside the Vehicle Assembly Building (VAB) at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

Posted January 24, 2025

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Exploration Ground Systems

Kennedy Space Center

Space Launch System (SLS)

NASA Kennedy Ground Systems Prepping Hardware for Artemis II, Beyond

Teams with NASA are gaining momentum as work progresses toward future lunar missions for the benefit of humanity as numerous flight hardware shipments from across the world arrived at the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida for the first crewed Artemis flight test and follow-on lunar missions. The skyline at Kennedy will soon see added […]

Posted January 17, 2025

Andre Douglas

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Christina H. Koch

G. Reid Wiseman

Victor J. Glover

Media Day with Artemis II Crews

From left, CSA (Canadian Space Agency) astronaut Jenni Gibbons, NASA astronaut Andre Douglas, CSA astronaut Jeremy Hansen, and NASA astronauts Christina Koch, Victor Glover, and Reid Wiseman participate in a media day event on Monday, Dec. 16, 2024, inside the Vehicle Assembly Building at the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

Posted January 3, 2025

Space Launch System (SLS)

Artemis

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Humans in Space

Kennedy Space Center

Marshall Space Flight Center

Michoud Assembly Facility

Artemis II Core Stage Vertical Integration Begins at NASA Kennedy

NASA has taken a big step forward in how engineers will assemble and stack future SLS (Space Launch System) rockets for Artemis Moon missions inside the Vehicle Assembly Building (VAB) at the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The VAB’s High Bay 2 has been outfitted with new tooling to facilitate the vertical integration of […]

Posted December 19, 2024