Mission Control's Orion Evaluation Room | NASA Artemis II Moon Mission

Mission Control's Orion Evaluation Room | NASA Artemis II Moon Mission

Lorelei Lohrli‑Kirk works on the imagery console inside Mission Control’s Orion Evaluation Room, helping bring the imagery captured by the Artemis II crew and Orion spacecraft back home to us.

NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS) rocket carrying the Orion spacecraft with NASA astronauts Reid Wiseman, commander; Victor Glover, pilot; Christina Koch, mission specialist; and Canadian Space Agency (CSA) astronaut Jeremy Hansen, mission specialist onboard launched, Wednesday, April 1, 2026, on the Artemis II mission from Launch Complex 39B at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. 

NASA’s Artemis II Mission is taking Wiseman, Glover, Koch, and Hansen on a 10-day journey around the Moon and back aboard their Orion spacecraft. They are now over three-quarters of the way to the Moon.

Track NASA’s Artemis II Mission in real time:
https://www.nasa.gov/missions/artemis-ii/arow/

Check the Artemis blog for updates: 

https://blogs.nasa.gov/artemis/

Video Credit: NASA's Johnson Space Center (JSC)

Duration: 1 minute, 38 seconds

Release Date: April 5, 2026

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