<Tr> <Td_colspan="2"> <P> </P> Orion Program ← EM - 1 EM - 3 → </Td> </Tr> <P> The Exploration Mission 2, or EM - 2, is a scheduled 2023 mission of the Space Launch System and possibly the first crewed mission of NASA's Orion spacecraft . </P> <P> Originally, the crewed mission was intended to collect samples from a captured asteroid in lunar orbit by the now cancelled robotic Asteroid Redirect Mission . As of April 2018, the plan is for a crewed Orion spacecraft to perform a lunar flyby test and return to Earth . </P> <P> Until 2017, EM - 2 was a projected single - launch mission of a Space Launch System Block IB with an Exploration Upper Stage, lunar Block 1 Orion Multi-Purpose Crew Vehicle (MPCV), and a payload insertion of 50.7 t . The plan was to rendezvous with an asteroid previously placed in lunar orbit by the robotic Asteroid Redirect Mission and have astronauts perform space - walks and gather samples . After the cancellation of the Asteroid Redirect Mission, it was proposed in 2017 to fly an eight - day mission with a crew of four astronauts, sent on a free return trajectory around the Moon . Another proposal suggested in 2017 was to take four astronauts aboard Orion on an 8 - to - 21 - day trip around the Moon to deliver the first element of the Lunar Orbital Platform - Gateway (LOP - G). </P>

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