Artemis II Trajectory Animation | NASA’s 10-Day Journey Around the Moon

This animation shows the planned trajectory for NASA’s Artemis II mission, the first crewed flight of the Artemis program. Artemis II is designed as an approximately 10-day mission that will send four astronauts around the Moon and back to Earth aboard the Space Launch System (SLS) rocket and Orion spacecraft. After launching from Kennedy Space Center in Florida, Orion will perform two Earth orbits before heading toward the Moon. The spacecraft will then loop around the Moon on a free-return-style path that forms a figure-eight pattern in mission visualizations, before reentering Earth’s atmosphere and splashing down in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of San Diego. The Artemis II crew includes Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, Christina Koch, and Jeremy Hansen of the Canadian Space Agency. The mission is a major test of NASA’s deep space transportation system and an essential step toward future lunar surface missions under Artemis. Source: NASA