As astronauts head for a trip around the moon, Georgia Tech faculty and students look on

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April 2nd, 2026

NASA’s Space Launch System rocket and Orion spacecraft lifting off.
NASA’s Space Launch System rocket and Orion spacecraft lifted off on April 1, 2026. The Artemis II mission will take NASA astronauts Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, and Christina Koch, and Canadian Space Agency) astronaut Jeremy on an approximately 10-day journey around the Moon and back aboard their Orion spacecraft. (Courtesy of NASA/Aubrey Gemignani)

As astronauts head toward the moon for the first time in decades, engineers and scientists at Georgia Tech are looking on with excitement.

The current Artemis II mission is set to take four astronauts around the moon.

The previous Artemis mission in 2022 was unmanned, but researchers from Georgia Tech contributed to it. With this mission, Georgia Tech grads are involved, including people who lead teams that worked on the launch and will recover the crew and the spacecraft from the Pacific Ocean when they return to Earth.

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