A new era of space exploration is set to launch at 8:33 a.m. ET on Monday.
NASA's Artemis 1 mission is a test of the powerful Space Launch System (SLS) rocket and the Orion spacecraft — it will be unmanned on Monday, but the plan is to soon use Orion to get a crew to the moon, where they will set up a base camp. NASA says the ultimate goal is to use what is learned during the first Artemis missions to send an expedition to Mars.
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