NASA began moving its Artemis II rocket towards the launch pad ahead of its launch date set for April 1 at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

NASA has moved its moon rocket to the launch pad, targeting an early April launch for the Artemis II mission, which aims to send four astronauts on a lunar fly-around.

NASA began rolling the Artemis II rocket and Orion spacecraft to the launchpad shortly after midnight Friday Eastern Time in anticipation of a launch in early April. The journey of the Space Launch System rocket to Launch Pad 39B was to take about four hours.

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