Under a mission scheduled to launch Wednesday evening, astronauts Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, Christina Koch and Jeremy Hansen are set to trace a figure-eight around the moon aboard NASA’s Orion spacecraft — an endeavor known as Artemis II — making them the first people to travel this far since the Apollo missions of the 1970s.

NASA is poised to launch a historic spaceflight around the moon on Wednesday. CBS News senior national correspondent Mark Strassman spoke with NASA administrator Jared Isaacman about the Artemis II mission.

It’s humanity’s first flight to the moon since 1972. In a throwback to Apollo, NASA’s Artemis II mission will send four astronauts on a lunar fly-around. They’ll hurtle several thousand miles beyond the moon,

Four astronauts are now inside the spacecraft as they get ready to journey around the moon. Liftoff is expected at 6:24 p.m. ET today from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. • Who the astronauts are: The crew includes NASA’s Reid Wiseman,

NASA's launch team has loaded more than 700,000 gallons of fuel into the 32-story Space Launch System rocket, setting the stage for the Artemis II mission crew members to board. The mission is NASA’s planned lunar fly-around by four astronauts that will be the first moon trip in 53 years.

The four astronauts in the Artemis II crew are set to lift off from Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida, on Wednesday, April 1, for a historic lunar mission. The crew of NASA's first human moon mission in more than 50 years will break through more than the atmosphere: Among the Artemis II crew will be the first Black man,

The four Artemis II astronauts are making their final preparations before Wednesday's scheduled launch for their trip around the moon. CBS News space consultant William Harwood and meteorologist Jessica Burch have the latest.

Live coverage for NASA's Artemis II mission is underway. The mission aims to send humans to the moon for the first time in a half-century.