About Artemis II

Artemis II is NASA's first crewed mission to the Moon in over 50 years. Launching aboard the Space Launch System rocket, the Orion spacecraft — named Integrity by its crew — carries four astronauts on a 10-day free-return trajectory around the Moon and back to Earth.

The mission tests every system needed to keep humans alive in deep space: life support, navigation, communication, and the heat shield that must withstand re-entry at 40,000 km/h. It is the proving flight for Artemis III, which will land astronauts on the lunar surface.

The four-person crew includes Commander Reid Wiseman, Pilot Victor Glover, Mission Specialist Christina Koch, and CSA Mission Specialist Jeremy Hansen. Together they will travel farther from Earth than any humans in history, surpassing the distance record set by Apollo 13 in 1970.

This tracker shows real-time (or simulated) telemetry data for Orion's position, speed, and distance from Earth and the Moon. When NASA's AROW (Artemis Real-time Orbit Website) is active, data is fetched directly from the mission. Otherwise, the tracker interpolates from the planned trajectory to give an approximate picture of where Orion is right now.