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JUSTTHENEWS (Ben Whedon) - Trump asks Artemis II astronauts for their autographs

The Artemis II mission saw the U.S. send a manned spacecraft to loop around the moon in the country's first lunar mission since the end of the Apollo program.

ABCNEWS - WATCH: Carl Roth, who worked on the original Apollo program that sent men to the moon, turned 108 on Wednesday — the same day NASA's Artemis II mission lifted off from Kennedy Space Center.

Carl Roth, who worked on the original Apollo program that sent men to the moon, turned 108 on Wednesday — the same day NASA's Artemis II mission lifted off from Kennedy Space Center.

JUSTTHENEWS (Steven Richards) - U.S astronauts set to embark on historic return to lunar orbit in Artemis II mission

The voyage will be the first manned mission to lay eyes close to the moon since the end of the Apollo program, launched on December 7, 1972, and concluded on December 19, 1972. Astronauts Eugene Cernan and Harrison Schmitt spent over three days on the lunar surface in the Taurus-Littrow valley, making them the last humans to walk on the Moon.

JUSTTHENEWS (Misty Severi) - NASA eyes March 6 for Artemis II lunar mission after successful dress rehearsal

The final results of Thursday's rehearsal still need to come in before the mission is approved, but if given the go-ahead, NASA will launch astronauts around the moon for the first time since the Apollo program ended over 50 years ago.