NASA's Artemis II Moon Crew Visits the U.S. Capitol

NASA's Artemis II Moon Crew Visits the U.S. Capitol

On May 12, 2026, NASA astronauts Christina Koch, Reid Wiseman, and Victor Glover, and Canadian Space Agency (CSA) astronaut Jeremy Hansen visited Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., where they met U.S. senators and representatives and spoke about their historic mission around the Moon.

NASA's Artemis II Mission took Wiseman, Glover, Koch, and Hansen on a nearly 10-day journey around the Moon and back to Earth.

The Orion spacecraft successfully splashed down on Friday, April 10, 2026, in the Pacific Ocean following its journey around the Moon.

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. 

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. 

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/

Credit: NASA
Duration: 1 minute
Release Date: May 20, 2026

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