Artemis astronauts arrive at launch pad after completing final task - a game of cards

• The astronauts who will be blasted into space today have arrived at the launch pad after suiting up and completing one final task - a game of cards.
• The four astronauts, Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, Christina Koch, and Jeremy Hansen, will undertake a lunar fly-around, marking the first moon trip in 53 years.
• Before they headed to the rocket, the crew played a quick card game with NASA’s chief astronaut Scott Tingle, a preflight tradition since the space shuttle era. Losing is good: It means the astronaut has gotten rid of all bad luck before launching.
• The launch is scheduled for Wednesday evening from Kennedy Space Center in Florida, with a two-hour window commencing at 6:24 p.m. EDT.
• The astronauts will travel several thousand miles beyond the moon, hang a U-turn and then come straight back in a quick out-and-back lasting less than 10 days.

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