NASA plans to launch four astronauts on a long-awaited trip around the moon as early as April 1, the agency announced Thursday.
Lori Glaze, acting associate administrator of NASA’s Exploration Systems Development Mission Directorate, said teams are on track to roll the Space Launch System rocket and Orion spacecraft back to the launchpad at Florida’s Kennedy Space Center on March 19.
“Everything is going pretty well,” Glaze said in a news briefing.
The mission, called Artemis II, will mark the first time that NASA’s Space Launch System rocket and Orion capsule carry people. On the 10-day voyage, the crew members — NASA astronauts Reid Wiseman, Christina Koch and Victor Glover and Canadian astronaut Jeremy Hansen — are expected to circle the moon, traveling farther from Earth than any humans have ever before.
The targeted launch date of April 1 will depend on remaining work that needs to be completed on the rocket while it’s
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