The NASA astronaut proudly posed with two daughters in front of the towering rocket that could be launching on Wednesday, April 1.
NASA’s Artemis II mission took decades of policymaking, engineering and financial support.
"Stay tuned as we enter the NASA Artemis era! Expedition 74 will certainly be keeping a close watch. Godspeed, Artemis II!"
Final preparations were underway at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida for NASA's Artemis II lunar mission.
Missions will include crewed moon landings every six months to visit a permanent lunar base.
The NASA astronaut snapped herself smiling, and also captured her colleague walking outside the International Space Station.
NASA’s Artemis II rocket is preparing to blast off to the moon.
The Artemisâ¯II mission will test deepâspace systems and pave the way for future crewed Moon landings.
NASA astronaut Jessica Meir shared pictures of herself reconfiguring her spacesuit and assembling equipment in the orbital platform's airlock.
The departing capsule became the first Dragon mission to reboost the ISS’s orbit.
