Hey, good morning, Playbookers. I'm Kara Tabor. Happy Monday, and to quote NASA administrator Bill Nelson,

we're going back to the moon. This is your Politico Playbook Daily Briefing.

There's a lot on the agenda this week. Today, Artemis I, the first step in NASA's new moon mission,

launches in the morning. Vice President Kamala Harris will speak at the Kennedy Space Center.

Tuesday, the DOJ faces a deadline to provide a more detailed list of items seized during the FBI search of Mar-a-Lago.

Biden will talk on gun safety in Wilkesbury, Pennsylvania.

Thursday, there will be a hearing in West Palm Beach on Donald Trump's request for a special

master to oversee the review of the FBI's Mar-a-Lago search.

And Friday. Absent new funding, the Biden administration will

end its program distributing free at-home COVID tests. Today is launch day for the space launch system rocket, which will push the Orient spacecraft

on a trajectory to orbit the moon. It lifts off at 8.33 a.m. Eastern time from the Kennedy

Space Center in Florida. NASA TV's stream of the enormous

30-story-tall rocket is already live with a count on clock. If all goes well, in six days,

the unmanned Orion capsule, which can accommodate four astronauts in future missions, will begin

orbiting the moon from a distance of some

43,000 miles from the lunar service.

Instead of humans, Orion will carry three mannequins inside, Commander Muniken Campos, Helga,

and Zohar.

This test flight will be followed by Artemis II in 2024, when four astronauts will circle the moon

inside Orion and return to Earth. Artemis 3 in 2025 or 26 will send Orion back into

lunar orbit, but this time two of the four astronauts will on dock from the space capsule

in a lunar lander and spend a week on the moon's surface.

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