NASA’s Artemis II is on a voyage around moon
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The 10-day mission will take humans further into space than ever before, and it is designed to test many of the technologies that Nasa will use for Artemis IV, scheduled to place astronauts on the Moon in 2028. That would be for the first time since the last Apollo landing in 1972.
NASA launched the Artemis II mission, which will carry humans to the moon for the first time since 1972.
A NASA crew of four astronauts are preparing for a critical stage of their journey that will set them on course for the moon, a step that will ultimately bring them closer to the lunar surface than anyone has been in more than 50 years.
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NASA's Artemis II crew commits to moon trajectory after critical burn sends Orion into deep space
NASA's Artemis II mission completes a critical engine burn, propelling the Orion spacecraft and its four-person crew out of Earth orbit toward the moon.
NASA announced Saturday that the four astronauts of the Artemis II mission were closer to moon than to the Earth.