NASA is set to launch Artemis II on April 1 at 6:24 p.m. ET, sending astronauts Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, Christina Koch and Canadian Jeremy Hansen on a ten‑day free‑return flight around the Moon—the first crewed deep‑space mission since 1972 and the farthest humans will travel from Earth, about 250,000 miles. The flight will test the Orion capsule and Space Launch System as a stepping stone toward future lunar landings.