Artemis II Launch Day, Crew Suit-Up and Walkout

CSA (Canadian Space Agency) astronaut Jeremy Hansen, Artemis II mission specialist, conducts leak checks on his spacesuit inside the crew suit-up room in the Neil A. Armstrong Operations and Checkout Building at the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Wednesday, April 1, 2026, ahead of the Artemis II test flight. The mission will take Hansen, Commander Reid Wiseman, Pilot Victor Glover, and Mission Specialist Christina Koch, from NASA, on a 10-day journey around the Moon and back aboard NASA’s SLS (Space Launch System) rocket and Orion spacecraft with a two-hour launch window opening at 6:24 p.m. EDT from Launch Complex 39B at NASA Kennedy.

CSA (Canadian Space Agency) astronaut Jeremy Hansen, Artemis II mission specialist, conducts leak checks on his spacesuit inside the crew suit-up room in the Neil A. Armstrong Operations and Checkout Building at the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Wednesday, April 1, 2026, ahead of the Artemis II test flight. The mission will take Hansen, Commander Reid Wiseman, Pilot Victor Glover, and Mission Specialist Christina Koch, from NASA, on a 10-day journey around the Moon and back aboard NASA’s SLS (Space Launch System) rocket and Orion spacecraft with a two-hour launch window opening at 6:24 p.m. EDT from Launch Complex 39B at NASA Kennedy.

Photographer NASA/Kim Shiflett
Album Artemis_II
Location O&C
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