NASA is moving its moon rocket Artemis II from the hangar to the launch pad on Friday at Florida’s Kennedy Space Center, ahead of humanity’s first trip to the moon in more than 50 years. Artemis II will send four astronauts on an approximately 10-day mission around the moon and back,

NASA began rolling the Artemis II rocket and Orion spacecraft to the launchpad shortly after midnight Friday Eastern Time in anticipation of a launch in early April.

Dr. Addie Dove, a planetary scientist at the University of Central Florida, joins Good Day Orlando to talk about the importance of the mission.