Artemis 2 is a NASA mission. It is the second mission in NASA's Artemis program. It will be the first mission with people on the Orion spacecraft. As of 2025's first quarter, NASA plans to launch it no later than April 2026.
Plan
The Orion spacecraft will do a flyby of the Moon, and then come back to Earth.[1][2] Artemis 2 will be the first NASA mission to go to the Moon since Apollo 17 in 1972.
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Spacecraft missions to the Moon |
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Active missions | | Orbiters |
- THEMIS satellites, renamed ARTEMIS
- CAPSTONE
- Danuri
- Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter
- Queqiao relay satellite (relay satellite at L2)
- Queqiao-2 relay satellite
- Tiandu-1
- Tiandu-2
- ICUBE-Q
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| Landers | |
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| Rovers | |
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| Flybys | |
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Past missions | | Crewed landings | |
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| Orbiters | |
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| Impactors |
- LCROSS
- Luna 2
- Moon Impact Probe
- Ranger 4
- 6
- 7
- 8
- 9
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| Landers | |
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| Rovers | |
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| Sample return | |
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| Failed landings | |
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| Flybys | |
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Planned missions | | Artemis | |
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| CLPS |
- Blue Moon Pathfinder (2025)
- Griffin M1 (2025)
- IM-3 (2026)
- Blue Ghost Mission 2
- Blue Ghost Mission 3 (2026)
- IM-4
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| Luna-Glob |
- Luna 26 (2027)
- Luna 27 (2028)
- Luna 28 (2030)
- Luna 29 (2030s)
- Luna 30 (2030s)
- Luna 31 (2030s)
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| CLEP |
- Chang'e 7 (2026)
- Chang'e 8 (2028)
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| Others |
- Beresheet 2 (2025)
- ispace M3 (2026)
- Lunar Pathfinder (2026)
- DESTINY+ (2028)
- Cislunar Explorers (2020s)
- CU-E3 (2020s)
- MoonRanger (2020s)
- International Lunar Research Station (late 2020s)
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Proposed missions | | Robotic |
- Lunar Polar Exploration Mission
- ALINA
- Artemis-7
- Blue Moon
- BOLAS
- Garatéa-L
- ISOCHRON
- LunaNet
- Lunar Crater Radio Telescope
- McCandless
- Moon Diver
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| Crewed |
- DSE-Alpha
- Boeing Lunar Lander
- Lockheed Martin Lunar Lander
- Lunar Orbital Station
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Exploration programs | |
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| Related |
- Colonization of the Moon
- Google Lunar X Prize
- List of lunar probes
- List of missions to the Moon
- List of artificial objects on the Moon
- List of species that have landed on the Moon
- Lunar resources
- Apollo 17 Moon mice
- Moon landing conspiracy theories
- Third-party evidence for Apollo Moon landings
- Apollo 11 anniversaries
- List of crewed lunar landers
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- Missions are ordered by launch date. Crewed missions are in italics.
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