Newly-released NASA Artemis II Moon Crew Photos

Newly-released NASA Artemis II Moon Crew Photos

NASA astronaut and Artemis II commander Reid Wiseman peers out the window of the Orion spacecraft at the near side of the Moon before going to sleep on Flight Day 5, the night before lunar flyby. Orion and the Artemis II crew aboard entered the lunar sphere of influence at 12:37 a.m. ET on April 6, at the tail end of the fifth day of their mission. 

NASA astronaut and Artemis II commander Reid Wiseman gazes out the window of the Orion spacecraft upon the start of the sixth day of the mission and a few hours before the lunar flyby.

NASA astronauts Christina Koch (below) and Victor Glover (above) share a window inside the Orion spacecraft during the sixth day of the Artemis II mission. Flight Day 6 was the crew's lunar flyby day, during which they rotated roles taking photos, making annotations, and recording their observations of the lunar surface.

NASA astronaut and Artemis II mission specialist Christina Koch on Flight Day 2 ahead of the translunar injection burn that ultimately sent the crew in the Orion spacecraft toward the Moon.

NASA astronaut and Artemis II mission specialist Christina Koch inspects seat hardware inside the Orion spacecraft, while Canadian Space Agency (CSA) astronaut and mission specialist Jeremy Hansen monitors the crew displays.

NASA astronaut and Artemis II Pilot Victor Glover smiles aboard the Orion spacecraft with a crescent Earth visible through the window behind him on the eighth day of the Artemis II mission.

NASA astronauts Reid Wiseman and Christina Koch are captured in a blurry snap on the seventh day of the Artemis II mission. On this day, the crew officially began their journey home after flying around the Moon one day prior. In this photo, Reid Wiseman holds a drink bag equipped with a straw for easy use in microgravity.

Canadian Space Agency (CSA) astronaut Jeremy Hansen inside the Orion spacecraft on the third day of the Artemis II mission.

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
Release Date: June 24, 2026

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