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WATCH LIVE: NASA astronauts enter capsule for historic return to the moon on Artemis II

Artemis II Launches Manned Test Flight Around The Moon CAPE CANAVERAL, FLORIDA - APRIL 01: (L-R) Mission specialist Jeremy Hansen of CSA (Canadian Space Agency), pilot Victor Glover, commander Reid Wiseman and mission specialist Christina Koch walk out of the Neil A. Armstrong Operations and Checkout Building ahead of the launch of the Artemis II at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center on April 01, 2026 in Cape Canaveral, Florida. The 322-foot-tall Artemis II Space Launch System rocket and Orion spacecraft will take the astronauts around the moon and back, 230,000 miles out into space and the farthest any human has ever traveled from Earth. (Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images) (Joe Raedle/Getty Images)

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — The four Artemis II mission astronauts have have entered the Orion capsule.

They are in place for humanity’s first trip to the moon in more than half a century, aiming for an evening liftoff with a two-hour launch window beginning at 6:24 p.m. EDT at Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

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Artemis astronauts Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, Christina Koch and Jeremy Hansen will hurtle several thousand miles beyond the moon, hang a U-turn and then come straight back.

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