The Artemis II mission launched from Florida's Kennedy Space Center on April 1. The four-person crew is currently orbiting Earth before beginning a four-day trip to the moon. This 10-day test mission will send astronauts farther from Earth than any humans ...

The Artemis II mission is expected to splash down off the coast of California on Friday night around 8:00 p.m., after successfully orbiting the Moon and breaking the record for the furthest from Earth humans have ever gone (their orbit was higher up than past moon missions,

And now for the dangerous part. Artemis II is officially flying to the moon after firing its thrusters and leaving Earth’s orbit at 7:49 p.m. — beginning an epic four-day journey that will take the crew where only 24 humans have gone before.

The Artemis II crew will travel farther than any human before. Here's everything you need to know about the historic moment.

NASA’s Artemis II astronauts have fired their engines and are blazing toward the moon. The so-called translunar ignition came 25 hours after liftoff, putting the three Americans and one Canadian on course for a lunar fly-around early next week.

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HOUSTON—The Artemis II astronauts returned from a nine-day flight test of NASA’s deep-space Orion capsule on April 10, marking the first crewed flight beyond Earth orbit in more than 50 years and setting the stage for a series of missions to establish a base on the Moon.