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

Artemis II Launches Manned Test Flight Around The Moon CAPE CANAVERAL, FLORIDA - APRIL 01: (L-R) Mission specialist Jeremy Hansen of CSA (Canadian Space Agency), pilot Victor Glover, commander Reid Wiseman and mission specialist Christina Koch walk out of the Neil A. Armstrong Operations and Checkout Building ahead of the launch of the Artemis II at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center on April 01, 2026 in Cape Canaveral, Florida. The 322-foot-tall Artemis II Space Launch System rocket and Orion spacecraft will take the astronauts around the moon and back, 230,000 miles out into space and the farthest any human has ever traveled from Earth. (Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images) (Joe Raedle/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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