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Artemis II is a 10-day, four-astronaut lunar flyby mission launched April 2, 2026, using Orion to loop around the Moon (including the far side) and return, with the European Service Module guiding Earth return and Artemis IV planned for 2028; the program remains burdened by delays and multi-billion budget overruns.
Artemis II traveled 248,655 miles—the farthest distance humans have been from Earth—breaking Apollo 13's record and marking a crater naming ceremony honoring the Orion spacecraft (Integrity) and Reid Wiseman's late wife Carroll.
NASA's Artemis II crew captured high-resolution Earth images from the Orion capsule during a trans-lunar injection, detailing a ~200,000-mile lunar trajectory with a planned far-side pass on April 6 and return on April 10.
Artemis II faced a Microsoft Outlook outage that NASA fixed via remote access to the astronaut’s Surface Pro.
Artemis II underscores a pivot to privatized lunar infrastructure and massive private financing (SpaceX IPO potential, Starcloud funding) amid SEC processes and NASA-private partnerships shifts.
NASA Artemis II faced Outlook glitches mid-flight; Mission Control remotely fixed two Outlook instances on a Surface Pro, highlighting software reliability risks in space.
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