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NASA Launches Artemis II, Its First Crewed Mission Toward the Moon in Decades
The 10-day flight will test Orion and the Space Launch System as NASA sends four astronauts around the Moon and back without landing.
- On Wednesday, April 1, NASA launched Artemis II from Kennedy Space Center in Florida, sending Commander Reid Wiseman, Pilot Victor J. Glover, and Mission Specialists Christina Koch and Jeremy Hansen on a historic 10-day lunar voyage.
- This historic voyage marks NASA's first crewed lunar mission in more than 50 years, featuring the first Black man, woman, and Canadian ever selected to travel beyond low Earth orbit toward the Moon.
- Orion's flight path extends more than 230,000 miles from Earth, with the crew flying 4,600 miles beyond the Moon to test life-support systems and deep-space hardware.
- During the 10-day journey, the team will perform critical systems checks and assist with 'correction burns' to ensure the spacecraft remains on track, according to NASA.
- Data from this mission helps verify deep space capabilities for humans, paving the way for planned lunar surface walks as soon as 2028.
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The 49-year-old astronaut became the first African-American to embark on a lunar flight on Thursday, April 2. An important step in the history of the Nasa, weakened by the retreat of diversity policies orchestrated by Donald Trump.
NASA launches Artemis II, its first crewed mission toward the Moon in decades
Four astronauts – Commander Reid Wiseman, pilot Victor Glover, mission specialist Christina Koch, and Canadian astronaut Jeremy Hansen – rode a 322-foot Space Launch System off Launch Complex 39B at 6:35 pm Eastern on Wednesday, beginning a roughly nine-day loop around the Moon.Read Entire Article
NASA launches Artemis II, new moonshot era
What happenedThe four astronauts of NASA’s Artemis II mission blasted off from Florida’s Kennedy Space Center shortly before sunset Wednesday, aiming to become the first humans to reach the moon in 54 years. The near-perfect launch sent NASA’s Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover and Christina Koch and Canadian astronaut Jeremy Hansen into Earth orbit, where Glover manually maneuvered their Orion crew capsule around the detached second stage of the SLS r…
Americans Christina Koch, Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover and Canadian Jeremy Hansen left for the Moon on the night of Wednesday to Thursday, a first since 1972.
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Who is Victor J. Glover?: Artemis’ First Black Astronaut Headed To The Moon
Source: MIGUEL J. RODRIGUEZ CARRILLO / Getty Victor Glover is one of those names a lot more people are about to know. The California native, a NASA astronaut and U.S. Navy captain, is set to serve as pilot on Artemis II, the agency’s first crewed mission around the moon in more than 50 years. That alone would make him a major figure in this new era of space exploration. Still, the history attached to it makes it even more significant: Glover is …
On board the "Orion" capsule, the crew - consisting of Christina Koch Victor Glover, Reid Wiseman and Jeremy Hansen - will circle around the moon for about ten days before the capsule is to land back on Earth.
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