Artemis II Explained | 2026 Mission to the Moon（原声文稿）

Artemis-2 is NASA's mission to the Moon launching in early 2026.

visited the Moon in over 50 years, but it's more like a test flight.

of the Moon on a 10-day journey, using the most powerful manned rocket to date.

for you in three parts, the spacecraft, the mission, and the crew. So let's go.

explain the Artemis II spacecraft real quick.

called the Space Launch System, or usually just called the SLS.

sides, a lot like the Space Shuttle, and an orange core stage in the middle.

have something that makes them really unique.

250th anniversary of the United States of America.

engineers from every state in the United States.

Interim Cryogenic Propulsion Stage, or ICPS. Above that is the upper stage, Orion.

Orion is really the star of this rocket and it has a few major sections too.

Service Module, or ESM, and it provides power and propulsion. It's the way that Orion gets around in space.

called the capsule, and this is where the astronauts live and work. In fact, astronauts will stay in this capsule the entire mission.

On Artemis 2, the crew have named their capsule Integrity.

capsule is the only part that will return back to Earth.

And finally, this top tower bit is called the Launch Abort System, or LAS.

if there was a major malfunction or an explosion and hopefully save the astronauts lives.

If you want to learn more about the SLS, I have a whole video about that right here.

talk about the Artemis-2 mission specifically. As I mentioned before, Artemis-2 is a test mission.

launch system, it launched back in 2022 and was an amazing success.

But Artemis-1 was uncrewed.

with crew on board and this crew is going to be able to test out a lot more of the shielding communication eating the four of us will gather to share Meals when we're on our nine-day trip around the moon inside here fill up water based rest of drink, but also to rehydrate the food is a rowing machine so we can do rowing like a cardiovascular can do squats, we can do dead lifts, we can really put a lot of stress on our muscles and our bones.

over to it, open up this hinging door, float on in.

Artemis II will launch from the Kennedy Space Center 39B launched Apollo 10 to the moon in the 1960s shuttle mission that I got to see launch when I was a February 5th, 2026 and when the countdown hits zero it's going and be left just with the core stage powering it into low Earth orbit. And this is when the launch abort system will be jettisoned as well.

ICPS ignites and gives the final push to get the crew into space.

After two burns the ICPS is going to have Orion in an elliptical high Earth orbit.

the close side of its orbit is going to be 115 miles from Earth. And this orbit will take about one day to complete.

separate from the ICPS and begin to do a docking practice maneuver.

In the coming years, Orion will dock with the lunar lander and the Gateway station. So we need to know, how well does the autopilot work? Do the thrusters work the way we expect them to?

sunny, last year, they were testing out a new spacecraft called Starliner.

on the space station for months instead of weeks was because of bad thrusters engine for the trans lunar injection or TLI astronauts to the moon for a free return trajectory the Earth will naturally bring Artemis 2 back home Artemis-2, it'll just naturally come back to Earth using gravity alone.

after their disaster on the way to the moon.

procedures, including what to do in case of a major talking about like going to the moon or maybe one day going to Mars, on board and the astronauts are going to test and see how effective it is in actual use. Alright so as I mentioned before Artemis 2 is not a lunar landing.

The astronauts are not going to be walking on the moon for this mission.

from the 1960s, that's the Christmas Apollo flight, this mission is already know, there's a side of the moon that far side of the moon that we will never see from standing destination for our Artemis II astronauts.

This is a simulation is going to look like.

This is actually what the astronauts will get to the lunar surface is about 4,600 do any necessary little corrections that it needs to from the ESM and re-enter the atmosphere for splashdown.

Navy, and complete their 10-day mission. All right, so let's talk about the crew.

II, Reed Wiseman, Victor Glover, Christina Cook, and Jeremy Hansen.

the exact people you would pick on an Artemis II mission.

of their bios, but seriously, you need to go read them. I've linked them all in the description of this video.

These are incredible people who have done amazing things in their lifetimes.

and a Baltimore native.

Wiseman has been an pilot for Artemis II.

He's a test pilot, a legislative fellow with the Operation Iraqi Freedom and has flown 40 aircraft across 24 different combat since 2013.

Christina Cook is a mission specialist on an Antarctic explorer, a firefighter, and has worked and NOAA.

She grew up on a family farm in Michigan with the longest single space flight, almost a full year.

mission specialist for Artemis II.

He's a pilot, a physicist, a colonel with the just 16 years old and became a firefighter pilot for the Royal Canadian Air Force.

astronaut to lead a NASA astronaut class.

And get this, Artemis II is crew.

Four incredible astronauts who are going to be able to test out first return to the moon in over five decades.

happening? Very soon.

The first launch window for Artemis Artemis 1 a couple of launch attempts before the result of that attention to detail and that a couple of scrubbed launch attempts over the next couple months.

for launch, hopefully, with some of you guys.

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