The Orion spacecraft, Space Launch System (SLS) rocket, and ground systems will all be tested during Artemis I, at the  Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida. Artemis I, the first of a series of more difficult missions, will be an unmanned flight test that will lay the groundwork for human deep space exploration and show our willingness and capacity to take human civilization to the Moon and beyond.

The spaceship will take off from the most compelling rocket on the planet and travel farther than any human-built spacecraft has ever gone. Over a four to six-week journey, it will travel 280,000 miles from Earth and thousands of miles beyond the Moon. Orion will return home faster and hotter than ever before, after spending more time in orbit than any other ship for astronauts has without docking to a space station.

Artemis 1 will launch an unmanned Orion capsule on a journey to lunar orbit and return. Later Artemis missions will send people to the lunar south pole in 2025 or 2026 with the goal of establishing a long-term human settlement there by 2030.

“This is a mission that truly will do what hasn’t been done and learn what isn’t known,” said Mike Sarafin, the Artemis I mission manager at NASA Headquarters in Washington. “It will blaze a trail that people will follow on the next Orion flight, pushing the edges of the envelope to prepare for that mission.”

The mission had some bad luck earlier this year after two failed launch attempts on August 29 and September 3. After discovering a hydrogen leak on board and some other technical issues, it was canceled.

However, now that they’ve fully prepared the rocket, NASA will attempt to launch Artemis 1 on November 16, that’s if the storm does not prevent them from postponing the mission.

In addition to the planned launch attempt on November 16, two backup launch options are available on Saturday, Nov. 19, at 1:45 a.m., and Nov. 25, both of which are two-hour launch windows.

If Artemis 1 does launch on November 16, the mission would last approximately 26 days, splashing down on December 11 in the Pacific Ocean.