NASA began to roll back the 11 million pounds of hardware from Kennedy Space Center’s Launch Pad 39-B to the Vehicle Assembly Building on Wednesday morning.

As teams prepare to launch Artemis II, a ten-day flight around the Moon with astronauts Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, Christina Koch, and Canadian astronaut Jeremy Hansen—NASA Administrator Jared Isaac...

But the additional mission gives NASA more practice launching its rocket and allows the agency and its partners to collect additional data as they finalize moon-landing hardware.