April 1, 2026

/ 5:55 p.m. CT (2255 GMT)

Artemis II launches

: Three Americans and one Canadian have launched on a mission to fly by the moon. Artemis II crew members Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, Christina Koch and Jeremy Hansen became the first people to fly atop NASA's Space Launch System (SLS) rocket on board an Orion spacecraft that they named "Integrity." The 10-day mission will offer a view of the far side of the moon and take them deeper into space than any humans before.