NASA’s Artemis II crew – NASA astronauts Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, and Christina Koch, and Canadian Space Agency (CSA) astronaut Jeremy Hansen speak during a press conference in Houston on April 16, 2026. Ashley Landis/AP Photo
The crew of NASA’s Artemis II told members of the press on April 16 that the Orion spacecraft they had test-flown around the moon and back was already in a state fit to carry the crew of Artemis III.
“There are always things we need to improve. Always,” said Reid Wiseman, Artemis II’s commander. “There are ways we need to do better living in space. There are ways this machine needs to be improved. But, in my own personal opinion, they could put the Artemis III Orion [spacecraft] on the Space Launch System tomorrow and launch it, and the crew would be in great shape.”
