JOHNSON SPACE CENTER — NASA officials on Tuesday morning said the Artemis II mission that will see four astronauts orbit the moon might launch as early as February 2026, as long as all systems and the lunar body align.

At NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston, officials of the Artemis II mission gave a step-by-step briefing of what to expect when four humans journey back to the moon.

It will send NASA’s Cmdr. Gregory Reid Wiseman , pilot Victor Glover , mission specialist Christina Koch and Canadian Space Agency astronaut mission specialist Jeremy Hansen to the moon, the first time humans visited the rocky satellite since 1972.

Lakiesha Hawkins, acting deputy associate administrator for the Exploration Systems Development Mission Directorate, said Artemis II will be a 10-da

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