Under a mission scheduled to launch Wednesday evening, astronauts Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, Christina Koch and Jeremy Hansen are set to trace a figure-eight around the moon aboard NASA’s Orion spacecraft — an endeavor known as Artemis II — making them the first people to travel this far since the Apollo missions of the 1970s.

In about a day, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration is getting ready to take a historic step in its mission to return to the moon.

Another key difference: Artemis reflects more of society, with a woman, person of color and Canadian rocketing away.