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Artemis II Astronauts Rocket Toward the Moon After Spending a Day Around Earth - WSVN 7News | Miami News, Weather, Sports

The crew will travel 6,400 kilometers beyond the moon’s far side and may become the farthest humans have ever been from Earth, NASA said.

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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — NASA’s Artemis II astronauts fired their engines and blazed toward the moon Thursday night, breaking free of the chains that have trapped humanity in

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Astronauts are officially heading to the Moon for the first time since 1972. After making sure that everything was safe and in order on the Artemis II mission, NASA gave the order on Thursday for the Orion capsule to start its engines and leave Earth orbit. “With this journey to the Moon, we do not abandon the Earth,” NASA’s Christina Koch said from the capsule. “We chose it.” At 19:49 Eastern time, the Orion spacecraft lit its main engine for f…

The Orion spacecraft initiated one of its most anticipated milestones to set the rest of the mission towards an encounter with the Moon: the translunar injection maneuver

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