Watch NASA’s Artemis II Become the First Human Trip to the Moon in 50 Years

The top sections of a large rocket and a launch gantry against the background of a deep blue sky.

NASA’s Artemis II Space Launch System (SLS) rocket and Orion spacecraft and the launch gantry at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida on March 31, 2026.

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Fifty-four years after the last Apollo mission to the moon, NASA’s Artemis II mission is set to return. The Space Launch System rocket carrying the Orion spacecraft is scheduled to take off from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Wednesday afternoon. The four-person crew, made up of American and Canadian astronauts, will be 250,000 miles from Earth at its farthest point in the journey to orbit the moon. This is everything you need to know about NASA’s mission, its dreams for a future lunar base and this new age of space exploration.

How to watch Artemis II moon launch

Takeoff is scheduled for Wednesday, April 1, at 6:24 p.m. ET / 3:24 p.m. PT from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida. Delays are common

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