NASA holds a news conference as it prepares to launch three U.S. astronauts and one Canadian astronaut on the first crewed lunar voyage in more than half a century. The 10-day flight around the moon will mark the second Artemis mission, the successor to the Apollo program from the Cold War era. The U.S. space agency said Artemis II is targeted to lift off no earlier than February 6, from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida. #NASA #ArtemisII #Artemis #Apollo #KennedySpaceCenter

137K views · 8.8K reactions | Deep space exploration begins on American factory floors. The launch of #Artemis I will bring together the world’s most powerful rocket, NASA's Space Launch System, and NASA’s Orion Spacecraft capsule to prepare us to land the first woman and the next man on the lunar surface: | NASA - National Aeronautics and Space Administration | Facebook

66K views · 605 reactions | What is NASA attempting to achieve with the Artemis Program? How will they achieve it? Author of "Rocket Dreams," Christian Davenport, previews our return to landing people on the Moon and discusses how private industry plays a role in achieving this goal. Watch this Sunday at 7 PM ET on C-SPAN 2. | BookTV | Facebook

455K views · 21K reactions | Behold: the most powerful rocket boosters ever built for flight  Together with the Northrop Grumman Corporation, we conducted a full-scale booster test for NASA's Space Launch System rocket — the same rocket that will bring humanity to the Moon and beyond with the #Artemis program. Missed it? Here are the highlights : https://go.nasa.gov/32XgCiC | NASA - National Aeronautics and Space Administration | Facebook