NASA Says Artemis II on Track for April 1 Launch Written 30 March 2026
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NASA’s Artemis II SLS rocket and Orion spacecraft at Launch Complex 39B, Friday, March 27, 2026, at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center, Florida. | Credit: Aubrey Gemignani; NASA
Space News reports, “While the Artemis 2 mission is primarily a test flight, the four astronauts on board will conduct some science during the nearly 10-day mission. ‘Science wasn’t in the driver’s seat to define what Artemis 2 is,’ said Jacob Richardson, deputy lead of Artemis 2 lunar science at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center, during a panel discussion at the Goddard Space System Symposium March 12. ‘Instead, we are using Artemis 2 as an opportunity to get science to prepare for our later Artemis missions when science is more of a driver.’”
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