Artemis II Might Head to the Moon Today04/01/2026Today may finally be the day that we head back to the moon. It's humanity's first flight to the moon since 1972. In a throwback to Apollo, NASA's Artemis II mission will send four astronauts on a lunar fly-around. The 6:45 pm scheduled launch will send three Americans and a Canadian into orbit around Earth and then head for the moon. The mission will take them several thousand miles beyond the moon, hang a U-turn and then come straight back during the nearly 10-day mission.