Four astronauts are scheduled to launch this week on humanity’s first lunar mission in over 50 years, featuring a woman, a Black man and a Canadian.

NASA’s Artemis II mission launched from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Wednesday, April 1, sending four astronauts around the Moon for the first time since 1972.

Ahead, the four crew members – NASA astronauts Reid Wiseman, Christina Koch and Victor Glover, and the Canadian Space Agency's Jeremy Hansen – will venture farther in space than anyone in human histor...