2026年4月5日 / 美国东部时间下午1:12 / 哥伦比亚广播公司新闻
华盛顿讯—— 美国国家航空航天局（NASA）局长贾里德·艾萨克曼周日阐述了他预计在未来几日最关键的时刻，届时阿尔忒弥斯二号机组人员将继续绕月球背面航行，他将此次任务称为人类重返月球表面探索过程中的关键测试任务。
阿尔忒弥斯二号任务于上周发射，这是五十多年前阿波罗计划结束以来首次载人登月任务。周一，该任务的四名机组人员将打破阿波罗13号创下的人类太空飞行距离地球最远的纪录。
“目前该任务阶段的主要目标是继续收集猎户座航天器生命支持系统（ECLS）的数据，”艾萨克曼在《与玛格丽特·布伦南会面》节目中表示。
此次任务旨在作为一次试飞，为未来使用猎户座乘员舱将宇航员送上月球的计划奠定基础。艾萨克曼指出，“这是我们首次让人类搭乘猎户座航天器进入太空。”
“我们希望尽可能多地收集相关数据，”他说。“当然，还有各类科学实验、月球观测，但尽可能多地了解猎户座航天器至关重要，因为阿尔忒弥斯三号任务将在一年后启动。”
艾萨克曼介绍，计划于2027年中期发射的阿尔忒弥斯三号任务将使用同款航天器搭配月球着陆器进行测试，随后是2028年的阿尔忒弥斯四号任务，“届时我们将使用这款航天器将机组人员转移至着陆器，将美国宇航员重新送上月球表面。”
自1972年NASA的阿波罗17号任务以来，人类从未再踏足月球。
阿尔忒弥斯二号机组人员将于周一创造历史，成为首批观测月球部分背面区域的人类。艾萨克曼表示，“在从地球航行25万英里抵达月球背面后，很难不让他们靠近舷窗进行观测。”
当哥伦比亚广播公司新闻记者埃德·奥基夫问及宇航员们将关注什么时，艾萨克曼表示他们将承担“观测职责”，操作一系列不同的相机并执行数据收集任务。
“但所有这些工作都将为后续的阿尔忒弥斯三号任务提供参考，而最重要的是为阿尔忒弥斯四号任务提供支持，正是这一任务将让宇航员重返月球表面，”艾萨克曼说道。
艾萨克曼是一位亿万富翁企业家，同时也是资深私人宇航员，与太空探索技术公司（SpaceX）创始人埃隆·马斯克关系密切。他是首位进行太空行走的普通公民。
搭载阿尔忒弥斯二号机组人员的航天器在周一绕月球背面飞行期间，预计将有大约40分钟无法与地球进行通信。但艾萨克曼表示，“这是我们在太空飞行任务控制中心中非常熟悉的情况。”
“宇航员在训练过程中已经习惯了这种情况，”他说。
对艾萨克曼而言，他表示在航天器绕月飞行期间，他会关注船上的生命支持系统。但最重要的是，他说，“我会关注热防护系统，以及当宇航员借助降落伞安全降落在水面上时的情况，这样我们就能将他们送回家人身边。”
What NASA chief Jared Isaacman is looking for in the coming days as Artemis II loops around the moon
April 5, 2026 / 1:12 PM EDT / CBS News
Washington — NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman outlined on Sunday the most critical moments he expects in the coming days as Artemis II astronauts continue their journey around the far side of the moon, describing it as a key test mission in the quest to return humans to the lunar surface.
The Artemis II mission launched last week, marking the first piloted moonshot since the end of the Apollo program more than five decades ago. On Monday, the operation’s four crew members are set to surpass the Apollo 13 record for the farthest distance from Earth that humans have traveled.
“The primary objective right now for this phase of the mission is continuing to gather data from the ECLS system, the life support system on the Orion spacecraft,” Isaacman said on “Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan.”
The mission is intended as a test flight to lay the groundwork for future efforts to land astronauts on the moon, traveling in a crew capsule known as the Orion. Isaacman noted that “this is the first time we’ve ever had humans onboard the Orion spacecraft.”
“We want to gather as much data as we possibly can for that,” he said. “Of course, there’s various science experiments, there’s lunar observations, but learning as much as we can about Orion is critically important, because Artemis III is a year away.”
Isaacman outlined that Artemis III, slated to launch in mid-2027, will test the same spacecraft with lunar landers, followed by Artemis IV in 2028, “where we’re going to use this spacecraft, transfer crew to the landers, and put American astronauts back on the surface of the moon.”
Humans have not visited the moon since NASA’s Apollo 17 mission in 1972.
The Artemis II astronauts are set to make history Monday as the first humans to see some parts of the far side of the moon. Isaacman said, “after a 250,000-mile journey away from Earth to the far side of the moon, it would be pretty hard to keep them away from those windows.”
Asked by CBS News’ Ed O’Keefe what the astronauts will be looking for, Isaacman said they will have “observational responsibilities,” with a series of different cameras and data collection duties.
“But all of this comes together to inform subsequent missions like Artemis III, but most importantly now Artemis IV, which is where we’re going to actually get those astronauts back on the surface,” Isaacman said.
Isaacman is a billionaire entrepreneur and a veteran private astronaut, who has strong ties to SpaceX founder Elon Musk. He was the first private citizen to carry out a spacewalk.
The spacecraft carrying the Artemis II crew is expected to temporarily lose communications with Earth for an estimated period of about 40 minutes Monday as it travels around the far side of the moon. But Isaacman said it’s “something we’re very used to in space flight mission control.”
“Astronauts are used to that as they go through training,” he said.
For Isaacman, he said he’ll be thinking about the life support systems on the vehicle as they travel around the moon. But most importantly, he said, “I’m thinking about the thermal protection systems and when these astronauts are under parachute, safely in the water, so we can get them back to their families.”
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