Artemis II Mission Enters Sixth Day

Artemis II is humanity’s first journey to the moon since 1972.

Monday marks the sixth day of the Artemis II mission.

On Sunday, mission control teams in Houston and the Artemis II crew completed an outbound correction burn to refine the Orion spacecraft’s trajectory to the moon. The spacecraft entered the lunar sphere late Sunday.

NASA astronauts Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, and Christina Koch, along with Canadian Space Agency astronaut Jeremy Hansen, reached a new mission milestone as the crew prepares to slingshot around the far side of the moon later Monday, breaking the record for how far humans have traveled from Earth.

Artemis II is humanity’s first journey to the moon since 1972. The mission will be a non-stop, six-hour flyby following the same figure-eight path as Apollo 13.