Artemis II Flight Day 5: Crew Demos Suits, Readies for Lunar Flyby - NASA
By Abby Graf
Published on April 5, 2026.
The Artemis II crew, consisting of NASA astronauts Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, Christina Koch, and CSA (Canadian Space Agency) astronaut Jeremy Hansen, are preparing for their lunar flyby on April 6. The crew will enter the lunar sphere of gravitational influence at approximately 12:41 a.m. EDT April 6 and will lower the cabin pressure in Orion to 10.2 psi to help engineers evaluate how the crew module reacts when it docks with lunar landers on subsequent missions. The final outbound trajectory correction burn will refine Orion's path toward the Moon. The Apollo 13 crew is expected to surpass the record set by 1970 for the farthest humans have ever traveled from Earth. Key moments for the lunar flyover include a solar eclipse, Earth will be seen from Orion's perspective, and the crew will exceed the record of 4,070 miles above the surface.
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