Artemis II Launch LCC Firing Rooms I and II Activities

Charlie Blackwell-Thompson, Artemis launch director, NASA’s Exploration Ground Systems Program poses with an Astronaut Snoopy plush toy and her childhood Astronaut Snoopy inside Firing Room 1 of the Rocco Petrone Launch Control Center following the launch of the Artemis II test flight on Wednesday, April 1, 2026. Snoopy has been an official NASA mascot for over 50 years. The Artemis II mission launched Commander Reid Wiseman, Pilot Victor Glover, and Mission Specialist Christina Koch from NASA, and Mission Specialist Jeremy Hansen from the CSA (Canadian Space Agency), aboard NASA’s SLS (Space Launch System) rocket and Orion spacecraft to journey for 10 days around the Moon and back to Earth.