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NASA has named the crew of the Artemis III mission that the agency is calling "one of the most highly complex missions NASA has undertaken."

An explosion Thursday destroyed the company's New Glenn rocket and caused significant damage to its launch pad at Cape Canaveral.

A rocket belonging to Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin has exploded during a test at the launch pad. Thursday night's blast was felt in nearby Cape Canaveral and Cocoa Beach, Florida, and briefly turned the sky orange.

Ahead of a much anticipated IPO, SpaceX is carrying out a critical test of its giant, stainless steel rocket. Investors will be watching closely.

The four astronauts spent more than nine days in the Orion space capsule on their journey, testing the vehicle for future missions and taking observations of the far side of the moon. It took them farther than any humans have ever traveled in space.

The Artemis II astronauts are on a course back to Earth after flying by the moon Monday, witnessing a solar eclipse, and breaking a distance record set by NASA's Apollo 13 astronauts.

NASA's Artemis II crew has successfully launched on a mission that will take it around the moon and back to Earth. A key maneuver Thursday night sent them hurtling toward their lunar target.

NASA is counting down to the Artemis II rocket launch from Kennedy Space Center, with liftoff scheduled for around 6:24 p.m. EDT on Wednesday.

On "The Florida Roundup," Hadfield talks about what it's like to be launched into space, what the Artemis II crew might be navigating as it prepares, his personal connection to one of the members and more.

In an announcement on CNBC, the NASA administrator said he wants NASA to send lunar landers to the moon on a monthly basis to support the agency's long-term goals, including one day having a permanent lunar base.

NASA has cleared its moon rocket for an April launch with four astronauts after completing the latest round of repairs. Mission managers made the call Thursday at Florida's Kennedy Space Center. NASA says the Space Launch System rocket will roll out of the hangar and back to the pad next week.

On "The Florida Roundup," we discussed changes to NASA's Artemis plans and more with reporter Brendan Byrne and UCF's associate provost for space commercialization and strategy, Greg Autry.