Artemis II Preflight

The astrovan with NASA astronauts Reid Wiseman, commander; Victor Glover, pilot; Christina Koch, mission specialist; and CSA (Canadian Space Agency) astronaut Jeremy Hansen, mission specialist, drives by the Vehicle Assembly Building towards Launch Complex 39B ahead of the crew boarding their Orion spacecraft atop NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS) rocket, Wednesday, April 1, 2026, 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 SLS rocket and Orion spacecraft from Launch Complex 39B, with a two hour launch window opening at 6:24 p.m. EDT. Photo Credit: (NASA/Joel Kowsky)