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Launch Your Name Around Moon in 2026 on NASA’s Artemis II Mission

The collected names will be put on an SD card loaded aboard Orion before launch.

NASA is inviting the public to join the agency’s Artemis II test flight as four astronauts venture around the Moon and back to test systems and hardware needed for deep space exploration. As part of the agency’s “Send Your Name with Artemis II” effort, anyone can claim their spot by signing up before Jan. 21. Participants can download a boarding pass with their name on it as a collectable.

Send Your Name Around the Moon

Boarding passes will carry participants’ names on NASA’s Artemis II mission in 2026.

Credit: NASA

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The sun, nearing winter solstice, travels low across the sky in a multiple-exposure picture made in Maine in 2002.

What Causes the Seasons?

Learn About the Solstice

Artist illustration of an unmanned passenger aircraft in flight during sunrise in the city.

What is AI?

An asteroid floating in space

What Are Asteroids?

A large boulder field during lunar surface extravehicular activity (EVA) at the Taurus-Littrow landing site

What is Lunar Regolith?

Using the deepest X-ray image ever made with Chandra of Centaurus A, astronomers have found an unusual mark from the giant black hole’s powerful jet striking an unidentified object in its path. A patch of V-shaped emission connected to a bright source of X-rays is located close to the path of the jet from the supermassive black hole (highlighted in the inset). The arms of the “V” are at least about 700 light-years long. In this image, low, medium, and high-energy X-rays from Chandra are colored pink, purple, and blue respectively.

What Is a Black Hole?

How Does the Sun Behave?

After completing its journey from NASA’s Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans aboard the Pegasus barge, teams with Exploration Ground Systems (EGS) transport the agency’s powerful SLS (Space Launch System) core stage to NASA’s Kennedy Space Center’s Vehicle Assembly Building in Florida on Tuesday, July 23, 2024. Once inside, SLS will be prepared for integration atop the mobile launcher ahead of the Artemis II launch.

What Is the Artemis Program?

A picture of the lunar surface with the NASA insignia and the text Spinoff 2025

NASA Spinoff 2025

Read About NASA Technology Spinoffs

An artist's concept of a small satellite orbiting Earth. The United States and Mexico are visible below.

What Is a Satellite?

What Is the International Space Station?

A collage of small thumbnails of pages from Issue 9 lined up together and at a slanted angle.

Astrobiology: The Story of our Search for Life in the Universe

Read the History Series

NASA astronauts Robert L. Behnken, left, Douglas G. Hurley (holding the Legacy Flag), and Christopher J. Cassidy during a press conference

Flag Day 2024

Former NASA mathematician Katherine Johnson is seen after President Barack Obama presented her with the Presidential Medal of Freedom, Tuesday, Nov. 24, 2015, during a ceremony in the East Room of the White House in Washington.

Who Was Katherine Johnson?

Commander Moonikin Campos Graphic

The Adventures of Commander Moonikin and Friends

Join Our Heroes on their Adventure

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Story Time with Astronauts

Listen to Stories

Comic book astronaut characters in Microgravity

The Astro-Not-Yets Explore Microgravity

Read the Story About Microgravity

A drawing of a group of students and an educator with the word sound in the background

The Astro-Not-Yets Explore Sound

Read the Story About Sound

Cover of The Astro-Not-Yets Explore Energy storybook

The Astro-Not-Yets Explore Energy

Read the Story About Energy

Aeronautics Leveled Readers

Read About the History of Aviation

Go to the Stories Webpage

NASA Knows Cool Stuff!

Learn amazing things about space stations, astronauts, airplanes and more!

Play It!

Find More Games

Put it Together

Pick a NASA Image and Solve the Puzzle

Play the Put it Together Game

Search for Spinoffs Game

Use Clues to Find NASA Spinoffs

Play the NASA Spinoffs Game

Star Fall game

Clear All the Stars to Win

Play Star Fall Game

Addition Blast Off game

Launch the Rocket

Play Addition Blastoff Game

Airplane High Low game

What Number am I Thinking of?

Play Airplane High Low Game

Rocket Builder

Build a Fleet of Rockets

Play Rocket Builder Game

Jumbled Jets game

Jumbled Jets

Play Jumbled Jets Game

Explore Mars Game

Drive a Rover on Mars

Play Drive a Rover on Mars Game

Meet the Astronauts Now in Space!

The spacy cartoon background of the space station with four astronauts posing

Build It!

Find More Things to Build

Tornado in a bottle

Tornado in a Bottle

Hand holds airplane made from a straw and paper

Make a Straw Plane

Animated gif showing the Orion spacecraft near the Moon during the Artemis 1 uncrewed flight test in 2022.

Build an Orion Desktop Model

Download and Print Paper Model

A student built spectrograph

Build Your Own Spectrograph

Three rocky asteroids

Make Asteroids You Can Eat!

Lunar lander made out of a red solo cup and straws

Build a Lander, Make Moon Phase Cookies, and More!

Make a Scale Solar System

Ready for a Challenge?

Join us as we design a paper airplane and try to throw it farther than ever!

Try the Challenge!

A diverse group of four children throwing paper airplanes.

Watch It!

Watch More Videos

A woman in a blue flight suit plays the saxaphone aboard the space station.

How Do Astronauts Unwind in Space?

Watch how Astronauts Practice Their Favorite Hobbies

NASA astronauts Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore, both Expedition 71 Flght Engineers, make pizza aboard the International Space Station's galley located inside the Unity module. Items are attached to the galley using tape and velcro to keep them from flying away in the microgravity environment.

Learn About Their Out-of-This-World Food

Far Out Video Series with Host Megan Cruz

How NASA Makes Space Exploration Possible

Hand touching robot

Surprisingly STEM Highlights Exciting and Unexpected Jobs at NASA

Learn About Careers at NASA

Students Talk to Astronauts in Space

Learn About Living and Working in Space

Space Toons

NASA's Traveler: Field Guide to Fancy Black Holes

A comic book about NASA’s Traveler: Field Guide to Basic Black Holes

Color It!

Find More Things to Color

Outline of an astronaut

Download the Astronaut Coloring Sheet

Start Coloring!

Color Nature with Nebula

Color Nature with Nebula

Black and white drawing of a rover

Space Place Coloring Pages

Illustration of 4 children dressed in space outfits

Commercial Crew Activity and Coloring Booklet

Black and white drawing of Artemis

Download the Artemis Coloring Page

A black and white starry background with a rainbow-colored circle and the words “Color the Universe”

NASA Coloring Books

Black and white drawing of two astronauts on the Moon

Spacewalk Coloring Sheet

Explore It!

Find More Things to Explore

LunaSustain Online Experience

Stereo movie of Dinkinesh from NASA’s Lucy mission.

Help Scientists Search for Asteroids Around Dead Stars

Artist illustration of the X-59 over land.

Take a Virtual Flight with NASA

Code a Mars Rover Driving Game

Climate Change for Kids

Find Your Exoplanet Name

Illustration of a floating city in space

Trace Space Back to You

Child explaining their science fair poster to a teacher

How To Do a Science Fair Project

Watching a Meteor Shower!

Check out the "What's Up for December?" video to get skywatching tips for the Geminid meteor shower!

Be a Stargazer!

Find More Things to Stargaze

Screengrab of the Daily Moon Guide site

Moon-o-Meter: What's Up Above?

Animation of the Moon Phase Calendar

Make a Moon Phases Calendar and Calculator

Illustration of a lion, bull, and ram in the sky and the words "Tonight's Sky Constellations"

What's Up Monthly Skywatching Guide

Paper fortune teller game

Make a Star Finder

A full Moon seen through blades of grass

Look at the Moon! Journal What You See

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Climate Kids

Play fun games, do hands-on activities, watch videos, and read stories about our changing planet!