A major step toward launch day is complete as NASA's Artemis II astronauts ran through a countdown demonstration test.
NASA’s launch and mission teams, along with the Artemis II crew, completed a key test Dec. 20, a countdown demonstration test, ahead of the Artemis II flight around the Moon early next year.
Artemis II will mark humanity's first crewed journey beyond low Earth orbit since Apollo 17 in 1972. The approximately 10-day ...
NASA’s Artemis II crew boarded the Orion spacecraft on December 20, 2025, for a countdown demonstration test, rehearsing launch-day procedures at Kennedy Space Center’s Vehicle Assembly Building.