NASA's Artemis II mission is set to launch, sending four astronauts on a 10-day journey around the moon. Here's how to watch it live.

Artemis II is ⁠scheduled to lift off from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida aboard ​the Space Launch System, the most powerful rocket the agency has ever flown. NASA has

NASA officials shared the final preparations for the Artemis II mission at a briefing at Kennedy Space Center Tuesday in Cape Canaveral, Fla.

Watch live coverage as NASA launches the Artemis II rocket carrying four astronauts on a 10-day journey taking them around Earth and the moon. NASA astronauts Reid Wiseman, Christina Koch and Victor Glover and Canadian astronaut Jeremy Hansen will be the first people to launch toward the moon since the Apollo 17 mission in 1972.

Lakiesha Hawkins, the acting deputy associate administrator for NASA's Exploration Systems Development Mission Directorate (ESDMD), joins CBS News 24/7 to break down the goals of the Artemis II moon mission.

NASA officials on Monday started the two-day countdown to the Artemis II mission launch, which will send a crew of four around the moon.

NASA has given the 10-day Artemis II mission the green light after its flight readiness review, and the weather outlook remains favorable.

NASA's Artemis II test flight will carry four astronauts around the Moon, marking the first such journey in more than half a century.