"We have a beautiful moon rise. We're headed right at it," Artemis II Commander Reid Wiseman shortly after launch

Artemis astronauts Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, Christina Koch and Jeremy Hansen embarked on a high-stakes flight around the moon on Wednesday. They’ll hurtle several thousand miles beyond the moon, hang a U-turn and then come straight back. No circling around the moon, no stopping for a moonwalk — just a quick out-and-back lasting less than 10 days.