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Artemis II astronauts leave orbit, rocket towards Moon
The 10-day mission will test Orion for deep-space travel and could set a new distance record of 252,000 miles, NASA said.
- On Friday, NASA's Artemis II crew—Commander Reid Wiseman, pilot Victor Glover, Christina Koch, and Canadian Jeremy Hansen—fired their engines for a five-minute burn, sending them toward the moon.
- This maneuver marks the first crewed lunar flyby since Apollo 17 in 1972, with the four astronauts aiming to complete their 10-day mission and splash down in the Pacific Ocean on April 10.
- Maintaining a stable trajectory, the Orion spacecraft allows the crew to monitor "survival systems" designed to support them for up to six days in the event of cabin depressurization.
- Teams at Kennedy Space Center's Launch Pad 39-B began assessing damage from the Space Launch System rocket launch this past Wednesday, with Dr. Lori Glaze reporting that initial imagery appears promising.
- As part of a strategy to compete with China, which aims to land humans on the moon by 2030, NASA is already refocusing on the Artemis III mission, targeting launch next year.
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By Jackie Wattles, Ashley Strickland and Elise Hammond, CNN The Artemis II mission crossed a crucial and historic threshold on Thursday, when the Orion spacecraft set its engine on and pushed four astronauts to the Moon, on a several-day journey that will take them further into space than any human being has ever traveled before. The ignition — as these maneuvers are called — lasted 5 minutes and 50 seconds, while Orion was only 185 kilometers a…
·Idaho Falls, United States
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The four astronauts of Expedition Artemis II are now officially on their way to the moon. "Humanity has once again shown what we are capable of," says astronaut Jeremy Hansen aboard the Orion spacecraft.
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