Artemis II

Artemis I was the first mission in the Artemis programme. An unmanned test flight to orbit the moon and return.

Artemis II is about an hour from "blast off". It is a manned flight, with 4 astronauts. The flight takes them to the moon, and returns with no moon landing. It's in a similar vein to Apollo 8. Artemis III will alos be a manned mission, with no moon landing. Hopefully Artemis IV will be the main event with a lunar landing!

It's very exciting, to me. I grew up in the 80's marvelling at the Apollo landings. I was young and didn't understand that the missions had ended, I assumed they were ongoing.

I think I will be happiest when people are on the moon, and driving a moon rover!

Update

The launch went well

Artemis II live broadcast


Written by Paul in blog on Wed 01 April 2026. Tags: space,

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