After years of postponements and close to $100 billion in spending, NASA is finally counting down to its first attempt to send astronauts around the moon since Apollo 17 in 1972.

NASA's Artemis II mission to fly by the moon, comprising of the Space Launch System (SLS) rocket with the Orion crew capsule, lifts off from the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida, U.S. A...

The planned mission includes the launch of four shoe-box-sized demonstrations and experiments known as “CubeSats.”