NASA astronaut Christina Koch and Canadian Space Agency astronaut Jeremy Hansen take off on a T-38 training flight from Ellington Field on Feb. 11, 2026, as a waning crescent Moon hovers above. Koch and Hansen, along with NASA astronauts Reid Wiseman and Victor Glover, are part of NASA’s Artemis II mission, the first crewed flight of the Space Launch System rocket and Orion spacecraft. Artemis II will fly around the Moon and back to test Orion’s systems and capabilities before returning the crew to a splashdown off the California coast.
As part of a Golden Age of innovation and exploration, Artemis will pave the way for new U.S. crewed missions on the lunar surface in preparation to send the first astronauts to Mars.
Image credit: NASA/Brendan Finnegan
2026年2月11日，NASA宇航员克里斯蒂娜·科赫与加拿大航天局宇航员杰里米·汉森驾驶T-38教练机从埃灵顿机场起飞执行训练任务，此刻一弯残月正悬于天际。科赫与汉森，连同NASA宇航员雷德·怀斯曼及维克多·格洛弗，共同组成了NASA阿尔忒弥斯2号任务机组人员，这将是太空发射系统（SLS）火箭与猎户座飞船的首次载人飞行。阿尔忒弥斯2号将执行绕月飞行并返回地球，旨在测试猎户座飞船的各项系统与性能，随后飞船将搭载乘组在加利福尼亚海岸附近海域溅落。
作为创新与探索黄金时代的一部分，阿尔忒弥斯计划将为美国新一代载人登月任务铺平道路，并为将首批宇航员送往火星做好准备。
图片来源：NASA/Brendan Finnegan
