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.
A 27-year Navy veteran and pilot, Wiseman has been all over the globe. He watched the Ravens' 2000 Super Bowl win on an aircraft carrier in the Middle East and the 2012 Super Bowl in an apartment in Russia as he trained for a mission aboard the International Space Station.
Back in 2014, Wiseman met with the Ravens and offered words of encouragement before their Week 16 game against the Houston Texans.
