Ravens Fan Is Headed to the Moon on NASA’s Artemis II Mission

A Ravens fan has embarked on a journey that is out of this world.

NASA astronaut Reid Wiseman and his three crew members lifted off on NASA’s Artemis II moon mission at Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Wednesday evening.

Wiseman, a longtime Ravens fan who grew up in Baltimore, is the commander of the mission, a 10-day voyage around the moon and back to Earth. It’s the first crewed lunar flight since Apollo 17’s moon-landing mission in 1972.

If the mission goes according to plan, Wiseman and his crew will get “an unprecedented view of the far side of the moon and set a record for the farthest distance ever traveled from Earth: 252,000 miles,” according to CBS News.