NASA Artemis II Moon Crew Visits Times Square in New York City
NASA’s Artemis II crewmembers: Canadian Space Agency (CSA) astronaut Jeremy Hansen, mission specialist; left, NASA astronauts Reid Wiseman, commander; Christina Koch, mission specialist, and Victor Glover, pilot, right, pose for a group photograph at the Times Square Skywalk, Thursday, April 30, 2026 in New York, NY.
NASA’s Artemis II commander Reid Wiseman, holds ‘Rise’ the zero gravity indicator, up for a photograph in Times Square, New York
NASA’s Artemis II crewmembers: NASA astronauts Reid Wiseman, commander; left, Christina Koch, mission specialist; Victor Glover, pilot; and Canadian Space Agency (CSA) astronaut Jeremy Hansen, mission specialist, right, in Times Square, New York.
NASA’s Artemis II crewmembers pose for a group photograph at the Times Square Skywalk (from left to right): NASA astronaut and mission specialist Christina Koch; NASA astronaut and pilot Victor Glover; Canadian Space Agency (CSA) astronaut and mission specialist Jeremy Hansen; NASA astronaut and commander Reid Wiseman
NASA’s Artemis II crewmembers: Canadian Space Agency (CSA) astronaut Jeremy Hansen, mission specialist; left, NASA astronauts Reid Wiseman, commander; Christina Koch, mission specialist, and Victor Glover, pilot, right, pose for a group photograph at the Times Square Skywalk
NASA’s Artemis II crewmembers: Canadian Space Agency (CSA) astronaut Jeremy Hansen, mission specialist; left, NASA astronauts Reid Wiseman, commander; Christina Koch, mission specialist, and Victor Glover, pilot, right, look at Times Square from the Times Square Skywalk
NASA’s Artemis II crewmembers: NASA astronauts Reid Wiseman, commander, left, and Christina Koch, mission specialist, look at Times Square from the Times Square Skywalk
A large display at the Times Square Skywalk shows NASA’s Artemis II crewmembers: Canadian Space Agency (CSA) astronaut Jeremy Hansen, mission specialist; NASA astronauts Victor Glover, pilot; Reid Wiseman, commander; and Christina Koch, mission specialist, right, Thursday, April 30, 2026 in New York, NY
The Artemis II crew was in New York City for a number of postflight events. NASA’s Artemis II mission took Wiseman, Glover, Koch, and Hansen on a nearly 10-day journey around the Moon and back to Earth earlier in April 2026. Times Square is a major commercial intersection, tourist destination, entertainment hub, and neighborhood in the Midtown Manhattan section of New York City. It is formed by the junction of Broadway, Seventh Avenue, and 42nd Street.
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.
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.
Artemis II splashed down on April 10 in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of San Diego. Following splashdown and recovery, the four crew members underwent post-mission medical evaluations before returning to shore and boarding an aircraft bound for Houston.
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.
Learn more about NASA's Artemis II Mission:
https://www.nasa.gov/mission/artemis-ii/
Image Credit: NASA/Bill Ingalls
Date: April 30, 2026
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