PEACHTREE CITY, USA – NASA’s Artemis II mission marked a major milestone in human space exploration, sending astronauts on the first crewed lunar mission in over 50 years during its historic April 1–11 space mission.
The four-person crew—Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, Christina Koch, and Jeremy Hansen—travelled aboard the Orion spacecraft, testing critical systems needed for future deep-space missions.
This mission is a key step toward establishing a sustained human presence on the Moon and eventually reaching Mars.
“There is nothing normal about this. Sending four humans 250,000 miles away is a Herculean effort, and we are now just realizing the gravity of that,” said Commander Reid Wiseman.
“We will explore, we will build, we will build ships, we will visit again. We will construct science outposts, we will drive rovers, we will do radio astronomy, we will found companies, we will bolster industry we will inspire, but—ultimately—we will always choose Earth, we will always choose each other,” said Mission Specialist Christina Koch.
