LIVE UPDATES: Artemis II prepares for liftoff from Kennedy Space Center

NASA Prepares For Artemis II Moon Mission CAPE CANAVERAL, FLORIDA - MARCH 31: NASA's 322-foot-tall Artemis II Space Launch System rocket and Orion spacecraft stand on Launch Complex 39B at Kennedy Space Center on March 31, 2026 in Cape Canaveral, Florida. The 10-day mission will take NASA astronauts Commander Reid Wiseman, Pilot Victor Glover and Mission Specialist Christina Koch and CSA (Canadian Space Agency) Mission Specialist Jeremy Hansen around the moon and back. The astronauts are supposed to fly 230,000 miles out into space, the farthest any human has ever traveled from Earth. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images) (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)
By Heather Taylor

Final checks are underway ahead of Wednesday evening’s planned launch of the Artemis II rocket from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

The mission will send four astronauts around the far side of the moon and back, marking NASA’s first manned mission toward the moon in more than 55 years. Astronauts last traveled to the moon during Apollo 17 in 1972.

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