Artemis II Launch
Artemis II mission teams pose for a selfie with NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman after monitor the launch of NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS) rocket and Orion spacecraft with NASA astronauts Reid Wiseman, commander; Victor Glover, pilot; Christina Koch, mission specialist; and CSA (Canadian Space Agency) astronaut Jeremy Hansen, mission specialist onboard on the Artemis II mission in Firing Room 2 of the Rocco A. Petrone Launch Control Center, Wednesday, April 1, 2026, at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. NASA’s Artemis II mission will take Wiseman, Glover, Koch, and Hansen on a 10-day journey around the Moon and back aboard SLS rocket and Orion spacecraft from Launch Complex 39B. The quartet launched at 6:35pm EDT. Photo Credit: (NASA/Aubrey Gemignani) NOTE - Portions of this image have been blurred for security reasons.
- Date
- 2026-04-01
- Photographer / author
- NASA/Aubrey Gemignani
- Collection
- HQ
- Archive
- NASA Image and Video Library
- Type
- photograph
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"Artemis II Launch" (2026-04-01). NASA/HQ/NASA/Aubrey Gemignani. Public domain. https://images.nasa.gov/details/NHQ202604010059Need photos for a whole script? Add Find Any Photo to Claude and ask for this one by its id: 10491.
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