KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Fla. — April 2, 2026 — NASA’s Artemis II mission roared into the Florida sky yesterday evening, sending four astronauts on humanity’s first crewed journey beyond low-Earth orbit in more than half a century. The Space Launch System rocket lifted off flawlessly from Launch Complex 39B at 6:35 p.m. EDT on April 1, carrying Commander Reid Wiseman, Pilot Victor Glover, Mission Specialist Christina Koch, and Canadian Space Agency astronaut Jeremy Hansen aboard the Orion spacecraft. The historic flight marks the first time humans have traveled toward the Moon since Apollo 17 in 1972. For the next 10