NASA is scheduled to launch the Artemis II mission on April 1, with four astronauts who will travel to the moon and back.

Four astronauts lifted off before sunset Wednesday, starting a historic 10-day journey to fly by the moon and propel people farther into space than they have ever gone before. The Artemis II mission is scheduled to loop around the moon for the first time since the Apollo era.

NASA's historic Artemis II mission successfully launches, sending astronauts on a journey back to the moon after 54 years. Fox News senior correspondent Jonathan Serrie reports live from Kennedy Space Center on the launch.

Artemis 2 is gearing up for a critical engine burn this evening (April 2), which will send the mission's four astronauts on a looping journey around the moon.

Four astronauts are on board the flight, which is the first crewed moon mission since 1972. • Artemis II is on its journey: Four astronauts blasted off from Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Wednesday evening on a monumental 10-day mission to circumnavigate the moon .

NASA's Artemis II astronauts launched on a nine-and-a-half-day mission around the moon and back. The spectacular launch marked the first piloted moonshot since the end of the Apollo program 53 years ago.

NASA has an online Artemis II tracker for those who want to follow along as four astronauts venture around the moon on an Orion capsule.

Artemis astronauts Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, Christina Koch and Jeremy Hansen are on board. They’ll hurtle several thousand miles beyond the moon, hang a U-turn and then come