CAPE CANAVERAL, Apr. 1 – NASA on Wednesday launched Artemis II, a mission decades in the making and the agency’s first attempt since the Apollo era to send astronauts beyond low Earth orbit toward the moon. The Space Launch System Block 1 rocket lifted off from Launch Pad 39B at Kennedy Space Center in Florida at 6:35 p.m. EDT, carrying the Orion spacecraft and a four-member crew into space. NASA