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NASA says space mission on track for Wednesday launch, aiming to carry a crew to the moon for first time in 5 decades
By Joey Roulette CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida, April 1 (Reuters) - NASA is set to launch four astronauts as soon as Wednesday evening on a 10-day flight around the moon, marking the most ambitious U.S. space mission in decades and a major step toward returning humans to the lunar surface before China's first crewed landing.
The last U.S. astronaut to land on the moon was on Dec. 19, 1972, during NASA's Apollo 17 mission. NASA astronauts went to the moon on six separate Apollo missions, beginning with Apollo 11 in 1969.
The Artemis II mission launched from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida at 4:35 MT/5:35 CT on Wednesday, April 1, carrying four astronauts away from the Earth and towards the moon on a spacecraft called Orion. The crew will have to travel some 244,000 miles (393,000 kilometers) away to reach the moon, which will take several days.
A group of researchers from Utah and Florida measured the sound levels produced by the Space Launch System rocket.
Artemis II mission is set to launch at 6:24 p.m. ET from Kennedy Space Center. The mission will send a crew of four astronauts on a 10-day journey around the moon, marking a historic return to deep space in over 50 years.
The astronauts of NASA's Artemis II mission spoke with reporters in their first press conference from space on Wednesday (April 8). Mission specialist Christina Koch and pilot Victor Glover reflected on their journey to the far side of the moon as the Artemis II crew heads back to Earth.
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