NASA’s Artemis II Mission Leaves Earth Orbit for Flight around Moon
3 Apr 2026, 02:48 GMT
By Lauren E. Low
Topic: Artemis 2
Source URL: https://www.nasa.gov/news-release/nasas-artemis-ii-mission-leaves-earth-orbit-for-flight-around-moon/
For the first time in more than 50 years, astronauts on a NASA mission are bound to fly around the Moon after successfully completing a key burn of Orion’s main engine. With the approximately six-minute firing of the spacecraft’s service module engine on Thursday, known as the translunar injection burn, Orion and its crew of