A view of Earth taken by NASA astronaut and Artemis II commander Reid Wiseman from one of the Orion spacecraft's four main windows after completing the translunar injection burn on April 2, 2026.
A view of Earth taken by NASA astronaut and Artemis II commander Reid Wiseman from one of the Orion spacecraft’s four main windows after completing the translunar injection burn on April 2, 2026.
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NASA’s Artemis II crew in Orion continues on a precise trajectory to flyby the Moon on Monday, April 6. Flight controllers in mission control at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston elected to cancel the spacecraft’s first outbound trajectory correction burn, as the spacecraft’s trajectory is on the right flight path.

This burn was the first of three planned trajectory adjustments in the mission timeline to fine‑tune the spacecraft’s velocity and trajectory. Any adjustments needed may be incorporated into a subsequent correction burn.

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