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Today, three Americans and a Canadian will fly around our lunar satellite as part of the Artemis II mission, scheduled for 2024. Many have speculated about who may be aboard NASA's Orion spacecraft, with at least one female explorer named as one of them. Here's what you need to hear about today's announcement, including how to watch live and who the most likely candidates are.

The first mission suit to be made specifically for a woman was announced by NASA and Axiom. The gear helps astronauts walk on the moon, owing to increased mobility. The prototype was adorned with Axiom's emblem and displayed the company's brand colors, blue, black, and orange for the unveiling on Wednesday. The final product, according to Axion, will be entirely white, protecting astronauts from extreme temperatures when in sunlight.

SpaceX has sent a Japanese lunar lander into space, starting its five-month journey to the moon. On Sunday, the spacecraft, designed by Tokyo's Space Corporation, blasted off from the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida atop a Falcon 9 rocket. In April, it will fly one million miles (1.6 million kilometres) from Earth before looping back and landing on the moon's surface. When it arrives, the ispace lander will launch a lunar rover from the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and a ball-shaped robot from the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA).

According to NASA, the launch of the world's most powerful rocket for a mission to the moon is scheduled to reconvene on Saturday at 2:17 p.m. eastern time, with a two-hour window.

The £19 billion Space Launch System will lift off from Cape Canaveral, Florida, and launch an uncrewed Orion spacecraft into orbit for a 42-day, 1.3 miilion-mile journey around the moon in a matter of hours. The Artemis I mission is a significant first step if the US space agency wants to achieve its target of landing humans on the moon surface in three years' time, with possibly including the first woman and first person of color. As the countdown to humanity's return to the moon's first stage gets closer, NASA is hosting a live stream of the launch - which you can view here.

NASA is just hours away from launching the world's most robust rocket. Between 08:33 and 10:33 BST), a lift-off from Cape Canaveral, Florida, will take place. If all goes as expected, another flight will launch in 2024, this time with astronauts on board, before human boots graced the lunar surface a year later as part of the US space agency's ambitious $93 billion (£63 billion) Artemis program. On Artemis III, the first woman and the first person of color will walk on the moon, perhaps as early as 2025. MailOnline has everything you need to hear about the forthcoming Artemis I mission, as well as how to track the flight live.

The first man to step onto the moon will miss a Nasa function to commemorate the landmark mission's 40th anniversary.