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It’s humanity’s first flight to the #moon since 1972.

In a throwback to Apollo, NASA’s #ArtemisII mission will send 4 astronauts on a lunar fly-around. They’ll hurtle several thousand miles beyond the moon, hang a U-turn & then come straight back. No circling around the moon, no stopping for a moonwalk — just a quick out-&-back lasting less than 10 days.

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NASA is going back to the moon. What to know about Artemis II

It's humanity's first flight to the moon since 1972. In a throwback to Apollo, NASA's Artemis II mission will send four astronauts on a lunar fly-around. Three Americans and a Canadian will launch into orbit around Earth and then head for the moon. They'll hurtle several thousand miles beyond the moon, hang a U-turn and then come straight back during the nearly 10-day mission. The Artemis launch will begin at Florida's Kennedy Space Center where the Apollo moonshots did. The mission will end with a splashdown homecoming into the Pacific.

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Nonilex 1d ago

#NASA promises more boot prints in the gray lunar dust, but not before a couple practice missions. The upcoming test flight by #Artemis astronauts Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, Christina Koch & Jeremy Hansen is the first step in settling the #moon this time around.

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Nonilex 22h ago

#Liftoff

The #ArtemisII 322-foot (98-m) #Space Launch System rocket topped with the astronauts' Orion crew capsule launched at 6:35 p.m. ET (2235 GMT).

The core stage has fallen away. The #Orion, still connected to the second stage, is coasting in an elliptical orbit. Over the next hour, the second stage will fire several times to put Orion is a highly elliptical orbit around Earth to allow time to test out critical systems before setting out toward the #moon.

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