The Exploration Mission 2 or EM-2 is scheduled to be the first crewed mission of NASA's Orion on the Space Launch System. The mission is to restart manned exploration of the Solar System. NASA plans to launch in 2023 with a crew to perform a practice flyby of a captured asteroid in lunar orbit. This mission is expected to be the first time Americans will have have left low Earth orbit since Apollo 17 in December 1972.
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