art002e009567 (April 6, 2026) - NASA’s Orion spacecraft captures the Moon and the Earth in one frame during the Artemis II crew’s deep space journey at 6:42 p.m. ET on the sixth day of the mission. The right side of NASA’s Orion spacecraft is seen lit up by the Sun. A waxing crescent Moon is [...]
Midway through their lunar observation period on April 6, 2026, the Artemis II crew members, NASA astronauts Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, Christina Koch, and CSA (Canadian Space Agency) astronaut Jeremy Hansen, pause to turn the camera around for a selfie inside the Orion spacecraft.Credit: NASA Media will have an opportunity at 9:45 p.m. EDT on [...]
(April 6, 2026) – Earthset captured through the Orion spacecraft window at 6:41 p.m. EDT, April 6, 2026, during the Artemis II crew’s flyby of the Moon. A muted blue Earth with bright white clouds sets behind the cratered lunar surface. The dark portion of Earth is experiencing nighttime. On Earth’s day side, swirling clouds [...]
The Artemis II crew – CSA (Canadian Space Agency) Astronaut Jeremy Hansen (far left) and NASA astronauts Christina Koch (center left), Reid Wiseman (center right), and Victor Glover (right) – participated in a live conversation with President Donald J. Trump following their historic lunar flyby during Flight Day 6. NASA The Artemis II mission wrapped [...]
The Orion spacecraft docked to the Gateway space station. Orion will visit Gateway for the first time on the Artemis IV mission when astronauts will use it to deliver the International Habitat (I-Hab) module to Gateway. Orion will return to Gateway to deliver additional elements on Artemis V and VI. [...]
The Orion spacecraft approaches the Moon ahead of Artemis II’s lunar flyby on April 6, 2026. NASA Live lunar flyby updates for NASA’s Artemis II mission will be published on this page. All times are Eastern. 2:45 p.m. Due to last approximately seven hours, the lunar observation period is the duration of time that the crew is close [...]
1 min read Night Sky Network Celebrates Artemis II Today, the crew of Artemis II reaches a milestone, traveling farther than any humans in recorded history, as they orbit the far side of the Moon, roughly 4,000 miles above the lunar surface. You can watch this historic broadcast on NASA’s YouTube channel today, April 6, 2026, [...]
A view of the near side of the Moon, the side we always see from Earth, as seen from the Orion spacecraft.NASA The astronauts aboard NASA’s Orion spacecraft captured this photo of the Moon’s near side on April 4, 2026. The image features dark patches at center and right; these are ancient lava flows, which [...]
(April 6, 2026) – Before going to sleep on flight day 5, the Artemis II crew snapped one more photo of the Moon, as it drew close in the window of the Orion spacecraft. Orion and the four humans aboard entered the lunar sphere of influence at 12:37 a.m. EDT on April 6, at the [...]
A view of NASA’s Orion spacecraft following its outbound correction burn, refining the spacecraft’s trajectory toward the Moon. Orion and the four crew members of the Artemis II mission will conduct a flyby around the far side of the Moon on Monday, April 6.NASA Mission control teams in Houston and the Artemis II crew completed an [...]
