Four astronauts launched aboard NASA’s Space Launch System rocket Wednesday evening at 6:35 p.m. Eastern time from Florida’s Kennedy Space Center, beginning humanity’s first crewed lunar journey since 1972. The Artemis II mission carries Americans Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, Christina Koch, and Canadian Jeremy Hansen on a 10-day trip around the moon aboard the Orion spacecraft named Integrity. Glover becomes the first Black astronaut to venture into deep space, while Koch is the first woman to make the journey. Hansen represents the first non-American on a lunar mission. The crew will travel over 695,000 miles, setting a new distance record from Earth, surpassing Apollo 13’s mark from 1970. The mission concludes with Pacific Ocean splashdown on April 10th.