New Delhi, April 2 -- NASA's Artemis II mission successfully launched on Wednesday (April 1), marking humanity's first lunar journey in more than 50 years and a major milestone in NASA's plans for a sustainable Moon presence.

The 32-story Space Launch System (SLS) rocket lifted off from Launch Complex 39B at 6:35 p.m. EDT, carrying the Orion spacecraft with NASA astronauts Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, Christina Koch, and Canadian Space Agency astronaut Jeremy Hansen aboard.

Artemis II features NASA's most diverse lunar crew to date: the first woman, a person of color, and a non-US citizen to travel beyond Earth orbit. "It's the story of humanity. Not Black history, not women's history, but it becomes human history," said astronaut Victo...