NASA is set to launch Artemis II at 6:24 p.m. ET from Kennedy Space Center, marking a historic return to deep space with astronauts aboard for the first time in more than 50 years.

The Artemis II astronauts traveled 252,756 miles from Earth during a seven-hour lunar flyby.

Commander Reid Wiseman, pilot Victor Glover, and missions specialists Christina Kock and Canadian Space Agency astronaut Jeremey Hansen are expected to break the record of the farthest space flight, w...