The four Artemis 2 astronauts arrived at Kennedy Space Center on March 27 for final preparations ahead of their historic lunar mission. The crew is scheduled to launch as soon as April 1 at 6:24 p.m. EDT (2224 GMT), marking the first crewed mission to the moon since the Apollo era.
Artemis 2 represents a critical milestone in NASA's lunar exploration program, serving as the first crewed test flight of the Orion spacecraft and Space Launch System rocket. The mission will fly around the moon without landing, testing life support systems and spacecraft performance with astronauts aboard.