Tonight, NASA intends to launch Artemis II from Kennedy Space Center in Florida, sending a team of four astronauts to slingshot around the moon on a 10-day journey that will be the farthest humans have ever traveled in space.

Meet the Press broadcast from Cape Kennedy space center and welcomed the three NASA astronauts who commanded Apollo missions 8, 9 and 10 ahead of the historic launch of Apollo 11, which would land Americans on the moon.

The Artemis launch marks NASA’s first crewed mission to the moon in 54 years. The last trip, Apollo 17, all the way back in 1972. Today, those who lived through those events, as well as the first moon landing,

On Wednesday evening, NASA successfully launched its Artemis II mission, sending four astronauts to circle the moon for the first time since 1972. One Utah resident spoke on her experience watching

Now more than halfway to the moon, the Artemis II astronauts prepared for their historic lunar fly-around to push deeper into space than even the Apollo astronauts. On the downside, their toilet is on the blink again.