Artemis II crew brings Moon Joy to NASA Stennis! 🚀 NASA astronauts Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, Christina Koch, and Canadian Space Agency astronaut Jeremy Hansen visited us on Thursday, Sept. 3, to celebrate the historic @NASAArtemis II test flight around the Moon. As the first astronauts to fly aboard NASA’s Orion spacecraft, the crew traveled farther in space than humans have ever before. During their visit to Stennis, they stopped at the Fred Haise Test Stand, where rigorous RS-25 engine testing ensures our astronauts fly safely on NASA’s SLS rocket. The crew thanked everyone for tackling hard challenges and reminded us during an employee event: “You put humans in space.” Today provided a great reminder for all: Whether you work at America’s largest rocket propulsion test site or look up at the Moon from your backyard, you are a part of America’s return to the Moon. And the Artemis II mission is just the beginning! Next comes Artemis III with a mission intended to demonstrate integrated operations between the Orion spacecraft and test versions of commercial human landing systems before Artemis IV returns astronauts to the lunar surface.

Artemis II has successfully launched. For the first time since the 1970s, NASA has sent humans beyond low Earth orbit, slingshotting around the moon. Follow along and discover what NASA hopes to learn. 🔗

The Artemis II crew went farther from Earth than any humans in history. Now, they're receiving one of the nation's highest honors for spaceflight. President Donald Trump and NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman presented the Congressional Space Medal of Honor to Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, Christina Koch and Canadian astronaut Jeremy Hansen at Johnson Space Center in Houston. The four astronauts made history in April during a 10-day journey around the moon, marking humanity's first crewed flight back to the moon in more than 50 years.