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Artemis II Crew on Historic Moon Flyby: ‘Your Awareness Is Heightened the Whole Time’
The astronauts said the mission provided rare deep-space health data and new far-side images as NASA prepares for future Moon and Mars flights.
- On April 11, 2026, astronauts Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, Christina Koch, and Jeremy Hansen appeared at Ellington Field in Houston to discuss their record-breaking NASA Artemis mission around the Moon.
- The NASA Artemis mission launched April 1, completing a nine-day journey around the Moon that marked the first crewed mission to the Moon's vicinity in decades.
- Living in the Orion capsule required the four astronauts to embrace constant proximity. Wiseman noted that "no one got through those things without crying" while connecting with family from space.
- Researchers with NASA's Human Research Program are using data from this crew to study physiological impacts of deep space travel supporting long-term goals for exploring the Moon and Mars.
- To address the complex data set, NASA launched the Human Research Data Methodology Challenge offering $25,000 in prizes, with submissions open until June 5, 2026.
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Science: An Amplifier of our Faith
“We need Jesus—whether here on Earth or orbiting the moon.” – Victor Glover, pilot on Artemis II In April 2026, the Artemis II mission flew a quarter of a million miles to the moon, did a lunar flyby, and remarkably returned with all astronauts safe and sound. This was the first time humans had visited […]
By Jackie Wattles, CNN. The four Artemis II astronauts, fresh from a daring and risky mission that captured the hearts of a world in turmoil, answered questions Thursday for the first time since their return. The crew—comprising NASA's Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, and Christina Koch, and Canadian Space Agency astronaut Jeremy Hansen—has been back on Earth for a week after a historic journey around the Moon using a gravity assist maneuver. They h…
Artemis II crew on historic moon flyby: ‘Your awareness is heightened the whole time’
The astronauts — Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover and Christina Koch with NASA, along with Jeremy Hansen of the Canadian Space Agency — discussed their living situations aboard the Orion capsule, the physical and mental challenges they faced, and their reactions to traveling further from Earth than anyone in history.
NASA Artemis II Human Research Data Methodology Challenge
art002e013365 (April 7, 2026) – The Artemis II crew – (clockwise from left) Mission Specialist Christina Koch, Mission Specialist Jeremy Hansen, Commander Reid Wiseman, and Pilot Victor Glover – pause for a group photo with their zero gravity indicator “Rise,” inside the Orion spacecraft on their way home. Following a swing around the far side of the Moon on April 6, 2026, the crew exited the lunar sphere of influence (the point at which the Moo…
Astronaut Reid Wiseman, commander of Miss Artemis II, explains how he felt when he was over 400 thousand kilometres from Earth. This miss hit him the record of the greatest distance ever reached by man in relation to the Earth, surpassing the record established by Apollo 13 in 1970.
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