Photos show the rocket and spacecraft that NASA will use to launch astronauts toward the moon for the first time in more than 50 years.

It is the first crewed lunar mission since Apollo 17 in 1972. Artemis II is scheduled for a 5:24 p.m. Central Daylight launch time weather permitting. There is a two-hour launch window. There is an 80% chance of favorable weather conditions.

The astronauts have been flexing their photography skills from their space capsule with some spectacular snaps of

Now more than halfway to the moon, the Artemis II astronauts prepared for their historic lunar fly-around to push deeper into space than even the Apollo astronauts. On the downside, their toilet is on the blink again.

NASA released the crew’s first downlinked images Friday, 1 1/2 days into the first astronaut moonshot in more than half a century.