If you’ve ever wanted to be part of a space mission, you may finally get that chance—without leaving Earth.

According to its website , NASA is seeking “volunteers to passively track the Artemis II Orion spacecraft as the crewed mission travels to the Moon and back to Earth."

The mission, targeted for no later than April 2026, will mark the first crewed flight of the agency’s Space Launch System (SLS) rocket and Orion spacecraft.

This opportunity builds on a similar effort during Artemis I in 2022, when 10 volunteers, including international space agencies, academic institutions, commercial companies, nonprofits, and private citizens, successfully tracked the uncrewed Orion spacecraft thousands of miles beyond the Moon.

Using ground antennas, participants received Orion’s signal and m

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