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ARTEMIS II Launch Day
00:24 MEZ loc Time at 02. April 2026
🔴 Live Broadcast The flight path will take Artemis II around 402,000km (250,000 miles) away from Earth, beating the record set by Apollo 13 of 400,171km (248,655 miles). The total journey will be over one million km (620,000 miles). That's equivalent to driving coast to coast across the US more than 200 times
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Last announcement: NASA has postponed the launch of the Artemis II crewed lunar mission until at least March 2026 due to technical problems encountered during testing. A launch attempt was originally planned for February 2026, but issues arose during the wet dress rehearsal on February 2, 2026.
Here are the latest details regarding the launch delay:
New launch date: Tentatively from March 6, 2026. NASA is evaluating data to confirm specific launch windows in March (and possibly April).
Reasons for the delay: A leak was discovered in a liquid hydrogen line during the wet dress rehearsal on February 2, 2026. Additionally, problems were found with a valve on the Orion capsule.
Background: The four-person crew (Jeremy Hansen, Christina Koch, Victor Glover, and Reid Wiseman) is scheduled to orbit the Moon during a ten-day mission. This is the first crewed lunar mission since 1972.
The North American winter storm in January 2026 had already delayed preparations before the current problems arose with the countdown simulation. The astronauts have been temporarily released from quarantine and will return to quarantine two weeks before the next target launch date.
Blue Origin Announces
In January 2026, Blue Origin announced it would be suspending its crewed space tourism flights with the New Shepard rocket for at least two years.
Here are the key facts about this move:
Reason for the break: The company wants to concentrate resources, engineers, and capacity to accelerate the development of the "Blue Moon" lunar lander (for NASA's Artemis program).
Strategic focus: Jeff Bezos' space company is thus prioritizing the crewed lunar landing and the construction of the large "New Glenn" rocket over suborbital short trips for space tourists.
Historical context: This follows a similar, nearly two-year hiatus between 2022 and 2024, which was implemented after a failure (NS-23) in September 2022 to improve the engines. Flights were not resumed until May 2024.
Flight status: By the beginning of 2026, 38 flights (unmanned and manned) had been conducted with New Shepard.
This represents a deliberate strategic shift to improve our competitive position in the race for manned deep-space missions (to the Moon).
Comeback 2028 with weekly departure into Space is the ambitious goal.
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