The 45th Weather Squadron in central Florida is monitoring conditions ahead of the fueling operations for Artemis II, a spacecraft that will travel beyond Earth's magnetosphere for the first time since the Apollo program. Scientists at the NOAA Space Weather Prediction Center in Boulder, Colorado are also monitoring solar activity on the Sun, which could potentially disrupt communications and navigation systems and pose a threat to spacecraft electronics. This monitoring has been a tradition since the space shuttle era and earlier as solar storms become part of the launch risk equation. As Artemis II travels beyond low Earth orbit, NASA has planned for a more protected space craft, which can be fortified using techniques from the International Space Station.