00:02NASA is set to send a crew back toward the moon for the first time in more than 50 years.
00:08The window for Artemis II's liftoff opens at 624 tonight from Cape Canaveral.
00:14Four astronauts will climb aboard the Orion spacecraft for a 10-day mission around the moon,
00:19traveling farther into deep space than any humans have gone before.
00:23They won't land, this is actually a test flight,
00:26but it's a critical step toward putting people back on the lunar surface later this decade.
00:33Artemis is building on an already solid legacy.
00:36If we look backwards in time just a little bit, right now our crews are on the International Space Station,
00:42learning how to truly work off of the planet.
00:45How does the human body perform? How do we resupply this International Space Station?
00:49These are lessons that will be critical on the moon as we look forward.
00:53The crew brings decades of experience, including spacewalks, long missions on the International Space Station,
00:59and military flight operations.
01:01The mission also includes the first non-American astronaut to travel beyond Earth's orbit,
01:06and the first female astronaut to do so.
01:09When the president of the Canadian Space Agency called me and officially proclaimed to me that I would be flying
01:17on Artemis 2,
01:18and then sharing that with my wife and three kids was also a very special moment for me,
01:24watching their excitement as I pursue a dream of mine.
01:28The journey will take them about 244,000 miles from Earth,
01:33swinging around the far side of the moon before Artemis 2 heads back home.
01:37NASA says conditions look good with about an 80% chance of favorable weather at launch.
01:43If all goes as planned, it's a big step for the space program going back to the moon
01:48and the start of what NASA hopes is a much longer stay next time.
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