India, April 1 -- Four astronauts are set to take part in a 685,000-mile historic journey to the moon. The Artemis II rocket launch is scheduled for Wednesday evening, April 1. It will mark the first time humans have flown beyond low-Earth orbit since the Apollo 17 mission that landed on the moon in 1972.

The mission involves a lunar flyby in which the astronauts are set to facilitate the testing of critical spacecraft systems. Aboard the Orion spacecraft, named 'Integrity,' will be three Americans and one Canadian - Reid Wiseman, Victor J. Glover Jr., Christina Koch, and Jeremy Hansen.

Koch is a mission specialist who holds the record for the longest single spaceflight by a woman at 328 days. She is a member of the Space Camp Hall of F...