Overview
- NASA reports about 3.4 million people have already joined the campaign promoted on X.
- Names can be submitted on NASA’s website through January 21, 2026.
- Collected names are planned to fly on a memory card aboard the crewed Artemis 2 spacecraft.
- Artemis 2 is targeting an approximately 10-day lunar flyby in April 2026 with Christina Koch, Victor Glover, Reid Wiseman and Jeremy Hansen.
- The mission timeline remains tentative after multiple delays, and the flight would be the first crewed journey near the Moon since 1972.