Artemis II lifted off from Florida’s Cape Canaveral on Wednesday, marking the crucial first step in mankind’s historic return to deep space and the moon. A crew of four astronauts are onboard the towering 322-foot rocket — and if all goes according to plan they will travel 250,000 miles away from home, further from Earth than any human has ever gone. They will also view sights never-before-seen by the human eye during the 10-day mission as they round the far side of the moon with the sun’s daylight shining up it.



