The four-person crew of NASA's Artemis 2 mission arrived at Kennedy Space Center in Florida on March 27 to begin final preparations for their historic lunar flyby mission. The arrival marks a critical milestone as the space agency moves closer to its first crewed lunar mission since the Apollo era.
Artemis 2 will send astronauts on a multi-day journey around the Moon aboard the Orion spacecraft, launched by NASA's Space Launch System (SLS) rocket. The mission represents the second flight of the Artemis program, following the uncrewed Artemis 1 test flight that successfully completed a lunar orbit in late 2022.