Artemis II Astronauts Set for Historic Lunar Flyby: What to Know

Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, Christina Koch, and Jeremy Hansen will go where no one has gone before and see things no human eyes have seen firsthand.

This photo shows the Orion spacecraft with the Moon in the distance, as captured by a camera on the tip of one of its solar array wings during flight day 2 of the mission. (Courtesy of NASA).

HOUSTON—Astronauts are back in lunar space for the first time in more than 50 years.

Artemis II’s Orion spacecraft, Integrity, crossed into the Moon’s gravitational influence at approximately 12:41 a.m. ET on April 6, officially making NASA’s Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, and Christina Koch, as well as the Canadian Space Agency’s Jeremy Hansen, the first astronauts to enter lunar space in more than half a century.