NASA's crewed lunar exploration mission Artemis 2 is scheduled to launch within a two-hour window beginning at 6:24 p.m. EDT on Tuesday (7:24 a.m. Wednesday KST) from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. If successful, the Korean CubeSat "K-RadCube" aboard the rocket will carry out a space radiation measurement mission.
NASA said ahead of the launch that "all technical preparations have been completed." A successful launch would mark the first time NASA sends astronauts toward lunar orbit in roughly half a century, since the Apollo 17 moon mission in 1972.
Artemis 2 is expected to fly approximately 1.1 million kilometers over 10 days, traveling about 400,000 kilometers from Earth toward the moon — farther than any previous mission.
