View image in fullscreenOnlookers at Nasa’s Space Launch System rocket with the Orion crew capsule, ahead of the Artemis II mission launch at the Kennedy Space Center at Florida’s Cape Canaveral, in the US, on 29 March. Photograph: Brendan McDermid/ReutersShareView image in fullscreenCanadian astronaut David Saint-Jacques speaks to reporters during a watch party for the launch of the Artemis II mission, at the Canadian Space Agency, in Quebec.Photograph: Canadian Press/ShutterstockShareView image in fullscreenJournalists set up cameras the day before launch