NASA’s Artemis astronauts enter final preparations for Moon mission

The four astronauts selected for NASA’s Artemis II mission arrived in Florida on Friday, entering the final phase of preparations for the first crewed journey toward the Moon in more than five decades.NASA astronauts Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover and Christina Koch and Canadian Space Agency astronaut Jeremy Hansen hopped out of Northrop T-38 jets that they flew from Houston, Texas, to NASA’s Kennedy Space Center, where they could launch to space as soon as April 1 aboard NASA’s towering Space Launch System (SLS) rocket.For all the latest headlines, follow our Google News channel online or via the app.They will ride inside an Orion crew capsule built to carry humans into deep space. The roughly 10-day mission will send the crew on a high-speed loop around the Moon and back.“The nation and the world has been waiting a long time to do this again,” Wiseman, the mission commander, told reporters after landing at Kennedy Space Center, adding that he and his crewmates “are really pumped to go

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