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NASA Gives Artemis Crew Green Light to Head Towards Moon
The four astronauts will begin a three-day trip around the Moon after NASA cleared Orion’s main engine burn, a key test for future lunar missions.
- On Thursday, NASA cleared the Artemis II crew to ignite the Orion capsule's engine, committing the agency to the first crewed lunar flyby in more than 50 years toward the Moon.
- The Space Launch System rocket launched from Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Wednesday, marking the inaugural crewed flight of the new lunar rocket.
- Astronauts Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, Christina Koch, and Canadian Jeremy Hansen are "in great spirits" despite minor troubleshooting, with the 5-minute 49-second engine burn set to propel the spacecraft out of Earth orbit.
- President Donald Trump praised "our brave astronauts" during a televised address on Wednesday regarding Iran, while NASA chief Jared Isaacman noted "we certainly have competition now."
- Washington's lunar investment is frequently portrayed as competition with China, which targets a 2030 landing, as projections for an Artemis III lunar landing in 2028 face scrutiny from experts.
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Artemis-II astronauts are officially on their way to the Moon, confirms Nasa
Nasa Administrator Jared Isaacman has confirmed that the Artemis-II crew is officially on a lunar trajectory. The Orion spacecraft completed its critical engine burn on April 3, 2026, leaving Earth orbit.
The four astronauts of the Artemis II mission of the Nasa, orbiting around the Earth the day after their successful take-off, received on Thursday the green light to put the gas towards the Moon in order to fly over it on Monday.In Houston, Texas, the control centre gave Thursday the green light expected to the astronaut quartet to put the gas towards the Moon shortly after 21h in Switzerland. The ignition of the engines to extract from the Eart…
On Thursday evening (French time), the American Space Agency gave permission to the crew of the Artemis II mission for a propulsion towards the Moon in a few hours. The operation is scheduled at 1h49 in the night from Thursday to Friday. - Artemis II: the Nasa gives its green light to the crew to propelle to the Moon (Sciences).
NASA gave me a green team of Artemis 2 missions on Earth's orbit, as their ship heading towards the Moon, reports AFP.
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