NASA targeting early February for Artemis II mission to the Moon

They do not have to have a mission like that be manned. The risk isn’t worth the reward. Wait until you can perform a landing to put astronauts in it. 

Wow that seems a lot faster than I thought. I know they aren’t landing but to put astronauts on the spacecraft and have them circle around the moon is a big deal.

Realize all depends on orbital mechanics, but this is to the MOON. NASA needs a day time launch to get the public excited. Broadcast to all schools so kids can watch, not like the early am launch of Artemis 1. Yes I know exact launch time not listed in article so this could be a prime time launch.

Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I’ve seen in this thread:

|Fewer Letters|More Letters|
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|[ECLSS](/r/Space/comments/1nom5ng/stub/nft2psi “Last usage”)|Environment Control and Life Support System|
|[GAO](/r/Space/comments/1nom5ng/stub/nfsqbin “Last usage”)|(US) Government Accountability Office|
|[HEO](/r/Space/comments/1nom5ng/stub/nft2psi “Last usage”)|High Earth Orbit (above 35780km)|
| |Highly Elliptical Orbit|
| |Human Exploration and Operations (see HEOMD)|
|HEOMD|Human Exploration and Operations Mission Directorate, NASA|
|[HLS](/r/Space/comments/1nom5ng/stub/nft2psi “Last usage”)|[Human Landing System](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artemis_program#Human_Landing_System) (Artemis)|
|[NET](/r/Space/comments/1nom5ng/stub/nft3q75 “Last usage”)|No Earlier Than|
|[SLS](/r/Space/comments/1nom5ng/stub/nft2psi “Last usage”)|Space Launch System heavy-lift|
|[TLI](/r/Space/comments/1nom5ng/stub/nft2psi “Last usage”)|Trans-Lunar Injection maneuver|

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So excited for this we are finally going beyond low earth orbit and going around the moon! And a historic Occassion with the first Woman to do that and first non American.