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This artist’s concept depicts the nominal trajectory for NASA’s Artemis II test flight, an approximately 10-day mission that will send four astronauts around the Moon and back. The agency’s SLS (Space Launch System) rocket and Orion spacecraft will launch from Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Orion will fly two orbits of Earth and then venture around the Moon in a figure-eight pattern before returning to Earth.

The Artemis II flight path traces humanity’s first crewed journey beyond low Earth orbit in more than 50 years, guided in part by Georgia Tech alumni helping plan, execute, and safely bring the mission home. Photo via NASA.