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You can track Artemis II in real time as Orion flies to the moon

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Orion is in space , the Artemis II crew will head to the moon , and you can follow their journey without leaving Earth.

NASA 's Artemis Real-time Orbit Website, or AROW, allows the public to track the moonship. During the roughly 10-day test flight , anyone with a phone or computer can see how far the crew — Commander Reid Wiseman , pilot Victor Glover, and mission specialists Christina Koch and Jeremy Hansen — are from Earth.

The tracker turns a complex deep space mission into something easier to understand at a glance. With data from sensors on the spacecraft, AROW takes information already flowing to mission control in Houston and interprets it into simple visuals for the layperson.…

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