Astromaniac Magazine presents
Artemis II Mission Report
The Essentials
A crewed lunar flyby that turned decades of planning into flight.
Artemis II launched on April 1, 2026 and splashed down on April 10, 2026, completing a nine-day mission and returning humans beyond low Earth orbit for the first time since Apollo.
Humanity Has Shown What We Are Capable Of
Official mission length from launch to splashdown.
A complete Earth-Moon-Earth deep-space loop.
A new human-spaceflight distance record.
Closest approach distance from the lunar surface.