The Artemis II mission is currently scheduled to launch at 6.24 am, April 2, Malaysia time. If successful, it will be the first time humans have returned to the moon since 1972 through the Apollo 17 mission. NASA confirmed that the probability of the mission being launched is around 80% with the original mission scheduled for February being canceled due to a leak in the SLS rocket fuel tank.
Artemis II will carry a four-person crew consisting of NASA astronauts Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover and Christina Koch and Canadian Space Agency astronaut Jeremy Hansen. If all goes well, the mission will take 10 days. The launch of the mission will be broadcast live on NASA's official YouTube page.
It will set four new records, namely the furthest journey from Earth ever made by humans. (over 400,000 km), the first woman to orbit the moon, the first non-white person to orbit the moon and the first non-American astronaut to orbit the moon.
