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THE EPOCH TIMES

Artemis II Astronauts Set for Historic Lunar Flyby: What to Know

Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, Christina Koch, and Jeremy Hansen will go where no one has gone before and see things no human eyes have seen firsthand

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This photo shows the Orion spacecraft with the Moon in the distance, as captured by a camera on the tip of one of its solar array wings during flight day 2 of the mission. (Courtesy of NASA).

T.J. Muscaro
4/6/2026|Updated: 4/7/2026

HOUSTON—Astronauts are back in lunar space for the first time in more than 50 years.

Artemis II’s Orion spacecraft, Integrity, crossed into the Moon’s gravitational influence at approximately 12:41 a.m. ET on April 6, officially making NASA’s Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, and Christina Koch, as well as the Canadian Space Agency’s Jeremy Hansen, the first astronauts to enter lunar space in more than half a century.

While they are not parking in lunar orbit or attempting a landing, the point where lunar gravity becomes more powerful than the Earth’s is considered the arrival point to lunar space. It is a threshold that only 24 explorers had crossed—until now.

The crew was scheduled to wake up at 10:50 a.m. ET, when a historic day of firsts, records, and opportunities for discoveries lay before them.

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