NASA's Artemis II astronauts will spend about 24 hours orbiting the Earth and running checks on their spacecraft and life support systems before heading to the moon.

Watch live from Kennedy Space Center in Florida as four astronauts blast off on the Space Launch System rocket for humanity’s first trip to the moon in 53 years.

The near-perfect launch sent NASA’s Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover and Christina Koch and Canadian astronaut Jeremy Hansen into Earth orbit, where Glover manually maneuvered their Orion crew capsule arou...