Artemis II carried the America250 logo on its Space Launch System boosters.
NASA technicians applied the semiquincentennial logo to the solid rocket boosters of the Space Launch System in November 2025. The branding connected the lunar mission with the United States’ 250th-anniversary commemorations in 2026.
Artemis II was the first crewed mission in NASA’s Artemis program. It carried four astronauts on a flight around the Moon and back to Earth, making it the first crewed mission beyond low Earth orbit since the Apollo program ended in 1972.
The mission is easy to confuse with Artemis I, which was an uncrewed test flight, or Artemis III, which was planned as a later lunar mission. Apollo 17 was the final Apollo lunar-landing mission, but it flew decades before America250 and did not carry the semiquincentennial logo.