Artemis 2 Moon Mission Launches Tonight: Inside NASA's Cramped Lunar Capsule

For the first time since 1972, four human beings are leaving the familiar gravity of Earth and venturing toward the Moon — not to land, but to orbit, to observe, and to prove that the path back is open. Artemis 2 lifts off from Kennedy Space Center today, carrying Commander Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, Christina Koch, and Jeremy Hansen aboard the Orion capsule atop the Space Launch System, bound for a 10-day lunar orbit mission. In a vessel no larger than a Transit van, they carry not only scientific instruments but the accumulated weight of a half-century's pause in human lunar exploration. T