Before our Artemis II astronauts lift off on their journey around the Moon next year, find out what it takes to build a mission like theirs from the ground up. Episode 1 of Moonbound is live—and free to watch on NASA : https://go.nasa.gov/4oSyG5m | NASA - National Aeronautics and Space Administration

’Twas the night before launch day…✨🚀 NASA’s Artemis II mission, targeted for early 2026, will be the first crewed flight of the Artemis campaign and the first time humans journey beyond low Earth orbit since Apollo. The mission will send four astronauts aboard the Space Launch System (SLS) rocket and Orion spacecraft on a roughly 10-day mission to orbit the Moon and return safely to Earth. Artemis II will rigorously test Orion’s life-support, propulsion, navigation, and communications systems i