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

On Monday, April 6, the Artemis II crew pulled off a seven-hour lunar flyby, saw a side of the moon no human had ever seen before, witnessed a solar eclipse, and flew 252,756 miles away from Earth, the farthest any human being has ever gone.

The Artemis II astronauts are approaching the point where they are closer in space to Earth than they are to the moon. Here's a live tracker.

Live coverage of Artemis 2's splashdown begins this evening as four astronauts return from their historic 10-day mission around the moon.

Astronauts from the Artemis II moon flyby mission will be answering questions about their 10-day trip on Thursday afternoon. The Artemis II crew – Jeremy Hansen, Christina Koch, Victor Glover, and Reid Wiseman – safely splashed down off the coast of San Diego on Friday.

NASA's Artemis II crew is approaching the moon. Here's what to know.

“Administrator Isaacman, just get a quick comm check to make sure you guys are still on the line and we didn’t have a handover,” Artemis II Commander Reid Wiseman said during the live call