WATCH LIVE: Artemis II Launches to Historic 10-Day Mission Around the Moon – Launch Confirmed at 6:35PM ET

Orion spaceship is set to take human beings the farthest distance from Earth ever.

ALL SYSTEMS ARE GO.

With few minutes for the scheduled lift-off, the Artemis II is now a ‘GO’, as engineers scrambled to fix two safety issues and kept the launch for today.

Pilot Victor Glover, Mission Specialist Christina Koch, and Commander Reid Wiseman from NASA, along with Mission Specialist Jeremy Hansen, from the Canadian Space Agency will depart to make space exploration history.

The Artemis II astronauts, now suited up for launch, are headed to the launch pad.

The crew includes NASA astronauts @Astro_Reid, @AstroVicGlover, and @Astro_Christina, and @CSA_ASC astronaut @Astro_Jeremy. pic.twitter.com/G8mGsJPgcQ

— NASA (@NASA) April 1, 2026

BREAKING: NASA is troubleshooting an issue that could delay the Artemis II launch. https://t.co/hvdX2AenHF

— CBS News (@CBSNews) April 1, 2026

The New York Post reported:

“Artemis II is scheduled to blast off from Florida as early as 6:24 p.m. EST Wednesday on an epic mission not seen since Apollo 17 left the moon in 1972.

The crew of Artemis II will be the first humans to travel to the moon since Apollo 17 left it in 1972.

The launch will send four astronauts — three Americans and one Canadian — loaded into a cramped spacecraft on a series of Earth orbits, before firing away for a loop around the moon and then heading home for a Pacific Ocean splashdown.

Artemis II’s flightpath will follow a figure-eight trajectory, which will utilize the moon’s gravitational field to slingshot the capsule back to Earth across the roughly 240,000 miles of space separating the two bodies.”

We’re going around the Moon. Come watch with us. Artemis II’s four-astronaut crew is lifting off from @NASAKennedy on an approximately 10-day mission that will bring us closer to living on the Moon and Mars. The launch window opens at 6:24pm ET (2224 UTC). https://t.co/X27QJejNDt

— NASA (@NASA) April 1, 2026

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