The four astronauts selected for NASA's Artemis ⁠II ⁠mission were due to arrive in Florida on ⁠Friday, entering the final phase of preparations for the first crewed journey toward the Moon in ​more than five decades.

NASA plans on launching its manned Artemis II exploration on a testing mission on April 1. Here's how to watch lift off.

It's the dawn of a new lunar era for NASA, with the four-person Artemis II crew arriving Friday afternoon at Florida's Kennedy Space Center after spending two weeks quarantining in Houston. CBS News space contributor Christian Davenport joins "The Takeout" to preview the mission.

A satellite earth station in Cornwall is set to play a role in Nasa launching its Artemis II mission to the Moon. Nasa said it was on track to launch its Artemis II mission in early April, which would see astronauts fly around the Moon for the first time in more than 50 years.

NASA’s Artemis II mission — the first crewed flight around the moon in more than 50 years — remains on track, according to the agency. The mission is still scheduled for early April, though officials say the timeline remains flexible as teams complete final safety checks.

On Friday, Administrator Jared Isaacman announced the space agency would carry out an additional flight in 2027 to test commercial lunar landers from one or both of SpaceX and Blu

NASA astronauts Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover and Christina Koch along with Canadian Space Agency astronaut Jeremy Hansen arrived from Houston at 2:15 p.m. to Kennedy Space Center as they target a launch as early as Wednesday evening.

Scientist Noah Petro, who was part of the lunar surface science team on Artemis I, joined KCRA News on Friday to explain what astronauts will observe