Ahead of the historic mission which will return humans around the moon, NASA's giant SLS rocket is set to roll to the KSC launch pad for testing.

Watch live as NASA holds a mission overview news conference on the rollout of Artemis II, the first crewed lunar flyaround mission in more than half a century, on Saturday morning from the Kennedy Space Center.

NASA’s Artemis II rocket is set to roll to the launch pad at Kennedy Space Center, the first 4 miles with another 600,000 to go with four crew around the moon.

NASA is preparing for it's first crewed Artemis mission with a NASA a rocket rollout – which involves moving an 11-millon point stack four miles

This will be the first crewed mission to travel around the Moon since the Apollo era, with astronauts flying past the far side of the Moon to test life support and navigation systems. View on euronews

NASA hopes to launch its crewed Artemis 2 moon mission in early February, but everything will have to go right to hit that ambitious target.

Artemis II, humankind’s first crewed lunar mission in more than 50 years, is finally nearing reality. At a press conference on Friday, NASA officials laid out the time line for what will happen both on the days before the mission lifts off and during Artemis II—and immediately afterward.

Depending on the timing, NASA could launch a fresh crew to the space station while four other astronauts are flying around the moon.