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NASA set for first crewed moon return in over half a century
Artemis II will test Orion and SLS systems with a crew of four astronauts on a 10-day lunar flyby, marking the first crewed mission beyond Earth orbit in over five decades.
- NASA is scheduled to launch Artemis II on Wednesday, sending three U.S. astronauts and Canadian astronaut Jeremy Hansen aboard the Orion capsule and Space Launch System rocket for a 10-day test mission around the moon.
- Representing the first crewed lunar flight in over 53 years, Artemis II serves as a critical test for life-support, navigation, and communication systems required for future lunar landings.
- The Artemis program represents a $93 billion investment since 2012, while Canadian participation stems from a 2020 agreement reflecting decades of robotic contributions, said Mathieu Caron, head of the Canadian Space Agency.
- U.S. officials are prioritizing this mission to reassert space leadership amid growing technological rivalry with China, which targets a 2030 goal to place its own crew on the lunar surface.
- The 2027 Artemis III mission will involve the Orion capsule docking with commercial landers from Blue Origin and SpaceX to demonstrate procedures for retrieving astronauts from the lunar surface.
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The crew of NASA’s Artemis spacecraft entered quarantine ahead of a planned launch as soon as Wednesday. All going well, the four crewmembers will be in space for 10 days, traveling around the moon — the first crewed trip there, and the first time humans have left low Earth orbit, since 1972 — before splashing down in the Pacific. The trip itself has been repeatedly delayed, and the Artemis program had been pushed back, but NASA has expanded its…
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- 38% of the sources lean Left, 37% of the sources are Center
38% Left
L 38%
C 37%
R 25%
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