NASA Mission Artemis I

At the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida, Artemis I will be the first integrated flight test of NASA’s deep space exploration system, which includes the Orion spacecraft, Space Launch System (SLS) rocket, and ground equipment. Artemis I, the first of a series of more difficult missions, will be an unmanned flight that will lay the groundwork for human deep space exploration and show our willingness and capacity to take human civilization to the Moon and beyond. The unmanned Orion spacecraft will launch atop the most potent rocket in the world and, over the course of around a three-week mission, will go thousands of miles beyond the Moon, farther than any spacecraft constructed for people has ever flown.