NASA's Artemis II crew launched on the first crewed lunar mission in over 50 years, sending four astronauts around the moon aboard the Orion spacecraft.

Four astronauts embarked on a high-stakes flight around the moon, humanity’s first lunar voyage in more than half a century.

NASA launched its most powerful rocket yet, the SLS, to send the crewed Artemis II mission to the moon, the first in more than five decades.

NASA launched the Artemis II mission, which will carry humans to the moon for the first time since 1972.

The Artemis II mission will test NASA's new Space Launch System rocket and Orion spacecraft with a crew aboard, laying the groundwork for future missions that aim to land astronauts on the moon.

The Space Launch System rocket, which is being used by Artemis II, is unusual in that Congress, frustrated when President Obama canceled an earlier return-to-the-moon program called Constellation, gave detailed specifications for what it wanted NASA to build. The pieces of S.L.S. are, in large part, a remix of components of the space shuttles.

Victor Glover, who played football and wrestled at Cal Poly, was among the four astronauts on board when the ship blasted off on Wednesday. He's also the first Black man to pilot a flight around the moon.

Locals and visitors who came for the moon launch are jockeying for prime spots to see NASA's Artemis II mission lift off, with some resorting to extreme measures.

It has been 50 years since humans last walked the lunar surface, and NASA’s efforts to get back there will take place in stages.