Artemis 2 mission timeline: An itinerary for the historic 10-day flight

NASA plans to launch four astronauts on a 10-day flight around the moon and back, testing a new spaceship on the agency’s first crewed mission beyond Earth orbit since 1972.

The mission, called Artemis II, will send a crew in the Orion capsule to verify that its life-support, navigation, communications, and flight systems work as designed in deep space. The astronauts are Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, and Christina Koch of NASA, and Jeremy Hansen of the Canadian Space Agency. 

The flight follows the success of Artemis I...