The acquisition of the radio frequency signal from the Artemis II crewed mission to the moon by NASA's Deep Space Network (DSN) is indicated by the peak in the data signal shown on the top computer screen.

The Orion spacecraft will take four crew members and one commode around the moon and back as part of the Artemis II mission. In April 2025, National Geographic worked with NASA and filmed the astronauts at an Orion space capsule model in Houston.

Houston, we have a toilet problem: Artemis II crew runs into plumbing snafu on deep-space mission - The $23 million toilet is the first designed for a deep space mission

Artemis 2 and ISS astronauts held a historic deep-space call across 232,000 miles, sharing views, routines, and life in orbit and near the Moon

Helping the astronauts of Artemis II speak to the folks on Earth is the Deep Space Network, operated out of Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena.

NASA's Artemis II crew launched on the first crewed lunar mission in over 50 years, sending four astronauts around the moon aboard the Orion spacecraft.

And how much farther will they travel than the Apollo 13 crew?

Victor Glover delivers a powerful Easter message from the Artemis II Orion capsule, calling Earth a beautiful oasis in the emptiness of the cosmos.

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