Orion Spacecraft: Critical Lunar Injection Burn Sets Deep Space Course

Here’s what is known about the Artemis II mission as of April 3, 2026, based on the provided sources: * The Artemis II mission launched on April 1, 2026. * The crew consists of NASA astronauts Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, and Christina Koch, and Canadian Space Agency astronaut Jeremy Hansen. * The spacecraft is named Integrity (Orion CM-003). * A perigee raise burn was completed on April 2, 2026, placing Orion into a stable high Earth orbit. * The spacecraft performed a trans-lunar injection (TLI) burn on April 2, 2026, sending it toward the Moon. * The mission is planned to be a ten-day flight around the Moon and back to Earth. * The crew resolved an issue with the spacecraft’s toilet system. * This mission will send humans farther from Earth than any have gone since the Apollo era.