What to Know about NASA's Artemis II Moon Mission ^1.9%

The New York Times - By Marco Hernandez, Kenneth Chang - 3/30/2026, 9:00 AM

Overconfidence Bias 7.4% - Optimism Bias 6.7% - Appeal to Authority 3.5%

NASA is sending four astronauts — three from the United States and one from Canada — on a trip around the moon and back without landing there. This is the first time that anyone would travel this far from Earth since Apollo 17 in 1972. The flight launched at 6:35 p.m. Eastern time on April 1. If Artemis II succeeds, missions that return... more