NASA Orion Moon Mission Evaluation Room Engineers | Johnson Space Center

NASA Orion Moon Mission Evaluation Room Engineers | Johnson Space Center

From air pressure to rocket thrust, Orion spacecraft face many forces in flight—and engineers like Quyen Jones in the Orion Mission Evaluation Room track them all. After a clean launch and a spot‑on translunar injection (TLI) burn, her team is excited to see data match years of testing on Artemis II.

NASA’s Artemis II crew is on the way to the Moon. After the mission management team polled “Go” Thursday, April 2, 2026, NASA’s Orion spacecraft fired its main engine for five minutes and 50 seconds beginning at 7:49 p.m. EDT, to successfully complete the TLI burn, sending the crew in Orion out of Earth orbit and on a trajectory toward the Moon.

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, was successfully launched at 6:35 p.m. EDT Wednesday, April 1, 2026, for the Artemis II Mission from Launch Complex 39B at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

NASA’s Artemis II Mission will take Wiseman, Glover, Koch, and Hansen on a 10-day journey around the Moon and back aboard their Orion spacecraft.

Artemis II Mission coverage on:

NASA+: https://plus.nasa.gov/scheduled-events/

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/nasa

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/NASA/

X: https://x.com/nasa

Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/nasa

Check the Artemis blog for updates: 

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

Video Credit: NASA's Johnson Space Center
Duration: 1 minute, 17 seconds
Release Date: April 3, 2026

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