Crew Shares Spaceflight Highlights | NASA Artemis II Moon Mission News Conference

Crew Shares Spaceflight Highlights | NASA Artemis II Moon Mission News Conference

Listen to sample comments from the Artemis II crew during a news conference at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas, on Thursday, April 16, 2026, where the astronauts discuss their flyby mission around the Moon.

Watch the full 1-hour news conference here: 
https://www.youtube.com/live/_43Ei9eQVww?si=XZT9E1E8qM7b2Pjj&t=228

NASA astronauts Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, Christina Koch, and Canadian Space Agency astronaut Jeremy Hansen splashed down in the Pacific Ocean on April 10, 2026, concluding the Artemis II mission. Our Artemis II crew accomplished many milestones on their 10-day mission, surpassing the Apollo 13 record for farthest crewed spaceflight and capturing unprecedented views of the far side of the Moon.

Under Artemis, NASA will send astronauts on increasingly difficult missions to explore more of the Moon for scientific discovery, economic benefits, and to build on our foundation for the first crewed missions to Mars.

The Artemis II Mission wrapped up a historic seven-hour lunar flyby on April 6, 2026, marking humanity’s first return to the Moon since Apollo 17 in 1972 and capturing images of the lunar far side. During their nearly 10-day mission, the crew completed a record-setting lunar flyby, taking them 252,756 miles at their farthest distance from Earth and 4,067 miles above the lunar surface at their closest approach. 

The first crewed test flight of NASA’s Artemis program lifted off from Launch Pad 39B at the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on April 1, 2026, carrying the first astronauts to travel to the Moon in more than half a century.

Learn more about NASA's Artemis II Mission:
https://www.nasa.gov/mission/artemis-ii/

Get ready for NASA's Artemis III Mission:
https://www.nasa.gov/mission/artemis-iii/

Credit: NASA/JSC
Duration: 3 minutes
Date: April 16, 2026

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