Artemis II: Countdown begins to NASA’s trip around the moon, the first manned mission there in more than 50 years | US News

The countdown has begun for the launch of NASA’s Artemis II mission around the moon. The 32-storey Space Launch System (SLS) rocket is set to blast off from the Kennedy Space Centre in Florida on Wednesday, sending four astronauts on a 10-day flight ending with a splashdown in the Pacific Ocean. At a briefing by…

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Quarantined astronauts take part in Q&A with days to go until NASA’s Artemis II moon mission | Science, Climate & Tech News

The countdown is on until NASA’s first moon mission in more than half a century, and the quarantined astronauts who’ll be travelling into space have taken part in a Q&A. Artemis II will take four astronauts – NASA’s Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover and Christina Koch, plus Jeremy Hansen of the Canadian Space Agency – on…

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