The mission will send four astronauts aboard the agency’s powerful Space Launch System rocket on a roughly 10‑day journey.

The April 1 launch is the first crewed lunar mission since Apollo 17 in 1972

The 10-day mission will send the crew around the Earth and then out to loop around the moon, where they'll see the far side of the moon.

A giant rocket’s tower of flame lifted three Americans and one Canadian at 6:35 p.m. Eastern on the first crewed journey that will go around the moon since 1972.

The tracker, officially referred to as the "Artemis Real-time Orbit Website" — AROW — allows users to not only see where the Orion spacecraft is and how fast it's traveling, but to see in miles how far it is from both the Earth and the moon, according to NASA.

Excited for the first human moon mission in more than 50 years? Here's everything to know about how you can watch the Artemis II launch.

• Artemis II heads to the moon: Four astronauts on the Artemis II mission are on their way to journey around the moon after successfully conducting the translunar injection burn, or TLI. They are expected to spend about eight more days in space.

The Artemis II crew during a suit-up and walkout at the Kennedy Space Center in August 2025. (NASA/Kim Shiflett) After years of careful preparation and testing, NASA is finally about to send a crew of astronauts to circle the Moon.

NASA's Artemis II lifted off on April 1 from Kennedy Space Center in Florida, sending four astronauts — Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, Christina Koch, and Canadian Jeremy Hansen — on a 685,000-mile, 10-day journey around the Moon.

NASA’s Artemis II could launch as soon as 6:24 p.m. EDT on Wednesday, sending astronauts around the moon on a 10-day mission — the first since 1972. Here are the details.