NASA is targeting March 6 as the earliest possible launch date for its Artemis 2 lunar launch, as the space agency is almost set to send four astronauts to the moon and back under one of its most-awaited missions.

Artemis 2 would be the first crewed flyby mission to the Moon in more than 50 years. Lori Glaze, a senior official with the US space agency, cautioned that more pad work and a dress rehearsal remained in order to meet that date.