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NASA's Artemis II launch will be streamed live on April 1 through NASA+ and partner platforms. Here's how iPhone, iPad, Mac, and Apple TV users can catch the history-making launch.
NASA's Artemis II mission launched Wednesday from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, sending four astronauts on a 10-day journey around the moon.
The Artemis 2 mission is currently scheduled to lift off at 6:24 p.m. EDT (2224 GMT) on April 1 aboard NASA's powerful Space Launch System (SLS) rocket from Pad 39B at NASA's Kennedy Space Center (KSC) in Florida. It will send four astronauts on a roughly 10-day journey around the moon and safely back to Earth on board the Orion capsule.
NASA's Artemis II astronauts launched on a nine-and-a-half-day mission around the moon and back. The rocket lifted off Wednesday evening from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida at 6:35 p.m. EDT. The spectacular launch marked the first piloted moonshot since the end of the Apollo program 53 years ago.
NASA plans to launch four astronauts on a 10-day trip around the moon as early as Wednesday. Here's what to know about the Artemis II mission.