Meet the Artemis II Crew: April 3, 2023

NASA and CSA (Canadian Space Agency) will announce the four astronauts who will venture around the Moon. The crew will include three NASA astronauts and one CSA astronaut. Traveling aboard NASA's Orion spacecraft during Artemis II, the mission is the first crewed flight test on the agency's path to establishing a long-term scientific and human presence on the lunar surface.

Artemis II is the first crewed mission aboard NASA's Space Launch System rocket and Orion spacecraft. The approximately 10-day mission will test and stress the Orion spacecraft's life-support systems to prove the capabilities and techniques required to live and work in deep space.

Artemis II builds on the successful Artemis I flight test, which launched an uncrewed Orion atop the SLS rocket on a 1.4 million-mile journey beyond the Moon to test systems before astronauts fly aboard the systems on a mission to the Moon.

Tune in on April 3, 2023! The event will air on NASA TV, the NASA app, and the agency's website.

Read more about the Artemis II mission here.

Enjoy the promo video below.