With the charge of “for all of humanity,” the four astronauts launched toward the moon Wednesday in a historic launch for the 32-story Space Launch System rocket and the Artemis II mission.

Four astronauts have embarked on a high-stakes flight around the moon.

Four astronauts have embarked on a high-stakes flight around the moon, humanity’s first lunar voyage in more than half a century.

Final checks underway to make sure the Artemis II mission is a go.

The four astronauts making NASA's next lunar leap bear little resemblance to the Apollo era.

The astronauts set to become the first lunar visitors in more than half a century have arrived at their launch site.

The astronauts set to become the first lunar visitors in more than half a century have arrived at their launch site.

Artemis II will send four astronauts around the moon in the first crewed flight test of the Space Launch System rocket and the Orion Spacecraft.

NASA is now targeting early Wednesday to roll the SLS rocket and Orion spacecraft for Artemis II off the launch pad and back to the Vehicle Assembly Building at Kennedy Space Center, the agency said on Monday.

NASA aims to send astronauts to the moon in March after acing the latest rocket fueling test.

Artemis II will send four astronauts around the moon in the first crewed flight test of the Space Launch System rocket and the Orion Spacecraft.

NASA's long-awaited moonshot with astronauts is off until at least March because of leaking hydrogen fuel.

NASA has run into exasperating fuel leaks in a make-or-break test of the moon rocket that's supposed to send astronauts on a lunar fly-around.

NASA has begun a two-day practice countdown for its first moonshot with astronauts in 53 years.

NASA has delayed astronauts' upcoming trip to the moon because of near-freezing temperatures expected at the launch site.

NASA's giant new moon rocket is finally at the launch pad.

The moon and sun share top billing in 2026.

NASA has announced more delays in sending astronauts back to the moon more than 50 years after Apollo.

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NASA and the White House say an international astronaut will be invited on a future moon landing.

The four astronauts assigned to fly around the moon for the first time in 50 years have met with President Joe Biden at the White House.

The four astronauts assigned to fly around the moon next year have gotten their first look at their spacecraft.

NASA officials joined the four-person crew of Artemis II on Tuesday to give an update on mission preparations at Kennedy Space Center.

NASA officials announced the astronauts who will crew the Artemis II mission as early as 2024.