They greeted the media one last time before embarking on their journey while wearing their special bright orange suits, custom-designed and enhanced to control their body temperature.
1/12 | Just hours away: this is how the Artemis II astronauts arrived at the launch pad. The crew arrived at the Launch Complex four hours before the estimated takeoff after completing the walk at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, which “every NASA astronaut has done since the Apollo 7 mission in 1968.” -Chris O’Meara