NOVA PBS Official Premiered Apr 15, 2026 Follow the Artemis mission to bring humanity back to the Moon for the first time since Apollo. Official website: https://to.pbs.org/4dJJTmN | A half-century after American astronauts walked on the Moon, NASA and its international partners are taking the dream of Apollo a giant step further. In the coming years, the Artemis missions – named after Apollo’s twin sister in Greek mythology – aim to bring astronauts back to the Moon and establish a lunar space station for scientific and commercial exploration. Follow the four members of the Artemis II crew as they embark on a perilous 10-day journey to orbit the Moon, venturing beyond Earth orbit for the first time since Apollo and farther into the Solar System than any humans have gone before. And get an inside look at the preparations needed to overcome the extreme engineering challenges of human-crewed spaceflight, all the way from launch to splashdown. Chapters 00:00 Introduction 04:33 The Artemis I Mission 10:57 Humans on the Moon 15:53 The Space Launch System and Capsule 33:12 How Astronauts Train for Outer Space 39:31 Artemis II Launch and Flight 49:18 Artemis II Reentry and Splashdown © 2026 WGBH Educational Foundation