NASA’s Artemis II mission launched on April 1, 2026, carrying four astronauts on a roughly 10-day journey around the Moon. The crew includes NASA astronauts Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, and Christina Koch, along with Canadian Space Agency astronaut Jeremy Hansen. The mission is a test flight of the Orion spacecraft, Integrity, and is the first crewed deep space flight since the Apollo era. Splashdown is scheduled for April 10 off the coast of San Diego.
The crew has had to deal with a number of unexpected problems aboard the capsule. These have ranged from a faulty toilet to a strange burning smell inside the spacecraft. But one of the more unusual concerns raised during the mission has nothing to do with hardware at all. It has to do with the astronauts themselves. Experts have warned that the gas astronauts pass naturally could be a genuine fire risk inside the Orion capsule.
