NASA is scheduled to launch the Artemis II mission on April 1, with four astronauts who will travel to the moon and back.

Artemis II is designed to have four astronauts loop around the moon in a risky, technically challenging 10-day mission.

NASA’s Artemis II mission lifted off from Florida on Wednesday evening, sending a four‑person crew on the first U.S. journey toward the moon in more than 50 years. The massive rocket roared off the launch pad after engineers resolved a pair of late‑day issues,

Live updates from the Artemis II mission, which launched April 1 from Kennedy Space Center on a 10-day test flight around the moon.

Under a mission scheduled to launch Wednesday evening, astronauts Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, Christina Koch and Jeremy Hansen are set to trace a figure-eight around the moon aboard NASA’s Orion spacecraft — an endeavor known as Artemis II — making them the first people to travel this far since the Apollo missions of the 1970s.

NASA’s Artemis II astronauts reached Earth orbit and will test Orion systems before firing toward the moon on a multi‑day mission.

Four US astronauts launched on NASA's Artemis II mission, a 10-day trip around the moon, marking a historic return to space.

Launch preparations have begun for the Artemis II mission, NASA’s planned lunar fly-around by four astronauts that will be the first moon trip in 53 years