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Join the Artemis Mission to the Moon

Make,  launch,  compete  and  learn. Find your favorite way to be part of the Artemis mission.

Find your place in space

Form Your Team

Students compete in design challenges while building foundational knowledge on topics and technologies critical to the success of Artemis.

Explore Hands-on Activities

K-12 students can engage in the Artemis missions through our people and resources.

Launch Learning With Artemis

Access interactive tools like simulations, open data, and game platforms, to help students build confidence and curiosity in STEM subjects.

Decorate Your Space

Become an Artemis expert with the latest graphics and shareable content for home and the classroom.

Learn About Artemis

NASA is returning to the Moon and creating a sustained presence to use as a springboard for Mars exploration.

Follow Artemis

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Join Student Design Challenges

Student Launch

Student Launch involves reaching a broad audience of middle and high schools, colleges, and universities across the nation in a nine-month commitment to design, build, test and launch vehicle and payload components that support NASA's Space Launch System and Artemis.

Human Exploration Rover Challenge

HERC features an engineering design challenge to engage high school, college and university students worldwide to design, develop, build, and test human-powered rovers capable of traversing challenging terrain and a task tool for completion of various mission tasks.

NASA App Development Challenge

ADC is a coding challenge in which NASA presents technical problems to middle and high school students seeking student contributions to deep space exploration missions.

LUNABOTICS

Lunabotics provides accredited institutions of higher learning students (vocational-technical, college, university) an opportunity to apply the NASA systems engineering process to design and build a prototype robot.

Micro-g Neutral Buoyancy Experiment Design Teams

Micro-g NExT challenges undergraduate students to design, build, and test a tool or device that addresses an authentic, current space exploration challenge.

Spacesuit User Interface Technologies for Students

SUITS is a design challenge in which college and university students from across the country help design user interface solutions for future spaceflight needs.

Explore Other Challenges and Opportunities

NASA Space Apps Challenge

The NASA International Space Apps Challenge is a hackathon for coders, scientists, designers, storytellers, makers, technologists, and innovators around the world!

NASA Internships

NASA offers several opportunities for students to undertake meaningful and challenging projects that truly make an impact on humanity.

Search NASA STEM Gateway

Discover a wealth of opportunities to broaden your experience in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics with NASA.

mission toolkit

Mission: All Systems Go!

NASA’s ‘Mission: All Systems Go!’ is a multimedia program of custom videos, space-themed imagery and tangibles specially developed to ease anxieties of young patients facing prolonged cancer treatment therapies and other intense medical protocols by likening their upcoming challenge to that of a NASA astronaut’s mission.

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Illustration of patient receiving treatment.
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Explore Hands-on Activities

Students can choose Artemis images and the level of difficulty (Grades K-4)

Make a Moon Phases Calendar and Calculator (Grades 5-12)

Hooray for SLS!  Children's Book and Activities (Grades k-4)

"No Small Steps" Videos Series (Grades 5-12)

Forward to the Moon Puzzle Booklet (Grades K-8)

Learn More about the Moon with Moon Trek (Grades 5-12)

Learn How to Draw Artemis (Grades 5-12)

Virtual Reality Program Allows for Immersive SLS Experience (Grades 8-12)

Take a Tour of the Moon! (Grades K-12)

Launch Learning With Artemis

Ray Shielding Activity (Grades K-8)

Want to Be an Astronaut? You’ll Need These 4 Expeditionary Skills (Grades 5-12)

👁 These images and videos show team members moving the first core stage that will help launch the first crewed flight of NASA’s SLS (Space Launch System) rocket for the agency’s Artemis II mission. The move marked the first time a fully assembled Moon rocket stage for a crewed mission has rolled out from NASA’s Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans since the Apollo Program, The core stage was moved onto the agency’s Pegasus barge, where it will be ferried to NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The core stage for the SLS mega rocket is the largest stage NASA has ever produced. At 212 feet tall, the stage consists of five major elements, including two huge propellant tanks that collectively hold more than 733,000 gallons of super chilled liquid propellant to feed four RS-25 engines at its base. During launch and flight, the stage will operate for just over eight minutes, producing more than 2 million pounds of thrust to help send a crew of four astronauts inside NASA’s Orion spacecraft onward to the Moon. NASA is working to land the first woman, first person of color, and its first international partner astronaut on the Moon under Artemis. SLS is part of NASA’s backbone for deep space exploration, along with the Orion spacecraft and Gateway in orbit around the Moon and commercial human landing systems, next-generation space, next-generational spacesuits, and rovers on the lunar surface. SLS is the only rocket that can send Orion, astronauts, and supplies to the Moon in a single launch.

Engineering Design Challenges: Spacecraft Structures

👁 The mobile launcher with NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS) rocket and Orion spacecraft rolls out of the Vehicle Assembly Building’s High Bay 3 to Launch Complex 39B on Tuesday, Aug. 16, 2022, at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. As part of the agency’s Artemis I flight test, the fully stacked and integrated SLS rocket and Orion spacecraft is scheduled to liftoff on Monday, Aug. 29. The first in a series of increasingly complex missions, Artemis I will provide a foundation for human deep space exploration and demonstrate our commitment and capability to extend human presence to the Moon and beyond. The primary goal of Artemis I is to thoroughly test the integrated systems before crewed missions by launching Orion atop the SLS rocket, operating the spacecraft in a deep space environment, testing Orion’s heat shield, and recovering the crew module after reentry, descent, and splashdown.

Engineering is Out of this World! (Grades K-8)

"How Does the SLS Rocket Fly?" Video (Grades K-12)

"Rocket Science in 60 Seconds" Video Series (Grades K-12)

Propulsion With the Space Launch System (Grades 5-8)

How Far Will it Go? (Grades K-4)

Engineering Design and Rocketry Lesson Plans (Grades 6-8)

Moon to Mars Bingo (Grades 5-12)

Decorate Your Space

Become an expert with the latest graphics and shareable content for work, school, or just for fun, and learn about all things Artemis as the agency and its partners cross off milestones leading up to Artemis II and missions beyond.

👁 In this virtual background, various scenes from Earth, Moon, and Mars are depicted within the silhouette outlines of three suited astronauts, artistically representing the interconnected nature of human space exploration from low Earth orbit to the Moon and, one day, human missions to Mars.

Artemis II Resources

Artemis II Crew Patch Virtual Background

Artemis II Poster

👁 The official Artemis II mission crew patch. The Artemis II test flight begins when a mighty team launches the first crew of the Artemis generation. This patch designates the mission as “AII,” signifying not only the second major flight of the Artemis campaign, but also an endeavor of discovery that seeks to explore for all and by all. Framed in Apollo 8’s famous Earthrise photo, the scene of the Earth and the Moon represents the dual nature of human spaceflight, both equally compelling: The Moon represents our exploration destination, focused on discovery of the unknown. The Earth represents home, focused on the perspective we gain when we look back at our shared planet and learn what it is to be uniquely human. The orbit around Earth highlights the ongoing exploration missions that have enabled Artemis to set sights on a long-term presence on the Moon and soon, Mars. Credit: NASA

Official Artemis II Mission Crew Patch

Artemis II Social Media Photo Frame

Explore More Resources

Crawler and Mobile Launcher Virtual Background

Large Moon and Mars Virtual Background

SLS Virtual Background

Astronaut Regolith Virtual Background

Astronaut Step Virtual Background

Orion Virtual Background

Moon Phases Virtual Background

The Gateway Virtual Background

Build Your Own Orion

Lunar Background for Virtual Classroom

Backgrounds for Desktop and Mobile

Artemis-inspired Background Gallery for Virtual Classroom

Orion Background for Virtual Classroom

Orion Poster

Orion Collectibles

Artemis I Launch Image Gallery

Why We Are Going To The Moon

Learn About Artemis

We’re going back to the Moon for scientific discovery, economic benefits, and inspiration for a new generation of explorers: the Artemis Generation. While maintaining American leadership in exploration, we will build a global alliance and explore deep space for the benefit of all.

Learn About the Artemis Mission

Learn More about Artemis Missions

Artemis I

Artemis I was an uncrewed flight test of the Space Launch System and the Orion spacecraft around the Moon.

Artemis II

Artemis II will be the first crewed flight test of the Space Launch System and the Orion spacecraft around the Moon.

Artemis III

Artemis III will send the first humans to explore the region near the lunar South Pole.

Artemis IV

Artemis IV debuts humanity's first lunar space station, a larger, more powerful version of the SLS rocket, and new mobile launcher.

I Am Artemis Features

Learn more about the people behind Artemis.

Read Their Stories
👁 Lane Polak is a technical writer for NASA’s SLS (Space Launch System), where he is responsible for creating content that raises public awareness of NASA and specifically SLS.
Lane Polak is a technical writer for NASA’s SLS (Space Launch System), where he is responsible for creating content that raises public awareness of NASA and specifically SLS.
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