This video features the Artemis II crew—NASA astronauts Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, Christina Koch, and Canadian Space Agency astronaut Jeremy Hansen—giving a mission update from the Johnson Space Center on September 24, 2025. The briefing focuses on their training progress, the “human” element of the mission, and the significance of international collaboration.
Artemis 2 will be the first crewed mission of the Artemis program, sending four astronauts on a 10-day flyby of the Moon. While the primary operational goal is to test the Orion spacecraft’s life support and manual piloting systems with humans on board, this briefing highlights how the mission also serves as a critical research platform.
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