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The Artemis 2 astronauts pose for a photograph alongside their zero gravity indicator on March 27, 2026 after arriving at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. (Image credit: NASA\/John Kraus)<\/p>\n
The four astronaut’s of NASA’s Artemis 2 mission arrived in style ahead of their historic moon mission.<\/p>\n
What is it?<\/p>\n NASA astronauts Victor Glover, Christina Koch<\/a> and Reid Wiseman, and the Canadian Space Agency’s Jeremy Hansen landed their T-38 jets<\/a> at the Launch and Landing Facility at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center (KSC) in Florida on Friday (March 27).<\/p>\n <\/p>\n The crew of four landed at KSC shortly before unveiling their zero gravity indicator, “Rise.” Zero gravity indicators are small stuffed items that accompany crews into space to serve as a visual signal that they’ve left Earth’s gravity as they begin to float around their spacecraft.<\/p>\n Article continues below <\/p>\n You may like<\/p>\n Rise consists of a smiling moon, wearing a cap decorated to resemble Earth, featuring a brim covered in stars.<\/p>\n Rise was designed by second-grader Lucas Ye of Mountain View, California, and was inspired by the iconic Earthrise moment from the Apollo 8 mission,<\/a> according to a statement<\/a> from NASA. The agency opened a call for submissions<\/a> for the Artemis 2 mission’s zero-g indicator last year and received over 2,600 submissions from over 50 countries.<\/p>\n Why is it amazing?<\/p>\n \n NASA astronauts Reid Wiseman and Victor Glover arrive at Kennedy Space Center on March 27, 2026, carrying “Rise,” the zero-gravity indicator they will be taking with them on their journey to the moon. (Image credit: NASA\/Brandon Hancock)<\/p>\n Artemis 2 will be the first crewed mission to lunar space in over 50 years, since the Apollo 17 mission<\/a> in 1972. The flight will test the Orion spacecraft and see the crew carry out experiments that will help NASA prepare for further Artemis program missions.<\/p>\n The overall goal of the Artemis program is to establish a sustained human presence on the lunar surface, including building permanent moon bases<\/a>.<\/p>\n NASA is currently ‘go’ to launch Artemis 2 as early as Wednesday, April 1, at 6:24 p.m. EDT (2224 GMT). <\/p>\n\n<\/p>\n