Artemis II update: Crew continues towards moon

The perigee raise burn is complete, marking another planned orbital adjustment in the early hours of the Artemis II mission. After a brief rest period, the crew was awakened to monitor the Orion spacecraft’s systems through the burn. The ground team woke them at 7:06 a.m. EDT with the song “Sleepyhead” by Young and Sick. Later, the mission management team will gather for its first meeting to assess the spacecraft’s systems and will give their approval for the upcoming translunar injection burn that will send astronauts out of Earth orbit and toward the Moon for the first time since 1972.