"Artemis II Moon Mission" NASA, April 2026 🚀 Stunning Celestial Spectacle

Added: 2026-05-05

[00:00:01][music] [music] [music] [music] [music] [music] [music] [music] [music] >> 3 2 1 Booster ignition and lift off.

[00:01:12]The crew of Artemis 2 now bound for the moon. Artemis 2 now bound for the moon.

[00:01:17]>> [music] [music] >> Next great voyage to begin.

[00:01:28]>> [music] [music] [music] [music] [music] >> Houston, go for Orion.

[00:02:00]Great calling. The rocket is on its own.

[00:02:03]Four brave explorers ready to ride the most powerful rocket NASA has ever launched.

[00:02:16]Humanity's next great voyage begins.

[00:02:22]>> [music] [music] [music] [music] [music] [music] [music] [music] [music] >> This is the timeline of the Artemis 2 mission.

[00:03:25]>> [music] >> It starts with liftoff, day one, when the rocket leaves Earth and places Orion into orbit.

[00:03:32]Over the next 2 days, the crew stays close to Earth, checking every system before going deeper.

[00:03:39]Then comes a powerful push, translunar injection, sending them toward the moon.

[00:03:46]As days 3 and 4 pass, they drift through deep space, watching Earth fade away.

[00:03:52]By day 5, the moon's gravity takes over.

[00:03:56]On day 6, they fly past it, closer than humans have been in decades.

[00:04:01]Then they swing around and head home.

[00:04:05]After a few days returning through space, day 10 ends with a fiery reentry and splashdown in the ocean.

[00:04:13]A full journey around the moon and back.

[00:04:18]>> [music] [music] [music] [music] [music] [music] [music] [music] [music] [music] >> All new photos released by NASA show the first images taken [music] by the Artemis crew. For the very first time, we're seeing Earth from the Orion spacecraft. [music] >> [music] >> It's just everything from the training, but in three dimension and absolutely unbelievable. This is incredible.

[00:05:54]Would you look at that, man?

[00:05:57]Wow, what Wow. Oh, man.

[00:06:13]Dude.

[00:06:15]No way.

[00:06:31]Phenomenal.

[00:06:32]Gone.

[00:06:37]>> [music] [music] [music] >> From inside the Orion [music] capsule, nicknamed Integrity, first words that all's good in Earth's orbit. Welcome on board the Integrity spacecraft.

[00:07:14]Currently, the crew is more than 100,000 miles from the Earth. You can see the entire globe [music] from pole to pole.

[00:07:21]You can see Africa, Europe. If you looked really close, you could see the northern lights. I really like it up here.

[00:07:28]>> [laughter] >> I wish I could have gotten here sooner.

[00:07:30]The four astronauts on this 10-day mission are paving the way for future lunar surface operations as they circumnavigate the Earth's only natural satellite. Copy, Moon Joy.

[00:07:41]>> [music] >> Copernicus, easily all I see. This is so awesome.

[00:07:48]We look like we're smiling at you.

[00:07:51]Like a little Cheshire cat.

[00:07:52]>> [music] >> I thought we just caught that Actiwatch sync. If I had my own, I'd sync it with you.

[00:08:04]>> [music] [music] >> We're completely distracted for a little bit.

[00:08:13]To me, it's a great can't take love to the stars, then what what are we doing?

[00:08:17]Like why are we even going?

[00:08:18]>> On board Orion, there were tears and hugs. So, we are in good shape here for entry and splashdown >> [music] >> as Artemis enters the Earth's atmosphere.

[00:08:30]Your trajectory is nominal and your recovery teams have visual.

[00:08:36]Houston, Integrity splashdown. Sending post-landing command now. Copy, splashdown. Waiting on VLDR. Splashdown confirmed at 7:07 p.m. Central Time.

[00:08:46]>> [music] >> You can hear it.

[00:08:49]Jubilation here in the flight controller.

[00:08:53]These four astronauts who just made history [music] as the first crew to return to the moon since 1972.

[00:09:02]>> [music] [music] >> I'm a guy who would be here.

[00:10:24]>> [snorts] [music] >> In all of this emptiness you have this oasis, this beautiful place that we get to exist [music] together.

[00:11:42]>> [music] >> We will explore.

[00:11:46]We will build.

[00:11:47]>> [music] >> But ultimately, we will always choose Hertz.

[00:11:53]We will always choose each other.