NASA Artemis II takes humanity back to Moon

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NASA's Artemis II moon mission is set to make space history
Just a few hours remain in the countdown for Artemis II, NASA's mission to return astronauts to lunar orbit for the first time since the Apollo era. The agency's new lunar hopes and dreams are sitting on pad 39B at Florida's Kennedy Space Center in the form of a 322-foot-tall rocket set to launch three Americans and one Canadian on a 10-day flyby of Earth's nearest celestial companion.

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The Artemis II is the first crewed lunar flight in over 50 years. Photos show the US' exploration of the moon through history.
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Four astronauts blasted off from Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Wednesday on a monumental 10-day mission around the moon.

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The mission also includes the first woman and first person of colour to fly into cislunar space, the area between Earth’s orbit and the Moon.

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History of the NASA space program

ABC News’ Elizabeth Schulze reports on the cold-war era space race and the history of the NASA space program, ahead of the Artemis II launch and the future US moon-base ambition.
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How NASA veterans are honoring the unsung heroes of the space program

Larry Bell (left) and Chet Vaughan worked for many years for NASA from the moon landings to the International Space Station. When former astronauts from the Apollo era pass away, it tends to make the news — like it did last month when we learned of the ...
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Students learn from NASA and embark on space simulation ahead of 40 year anniversary of Challenger disaster

KAPOLEI, Oahu (KHON2) — This coming Wednesday, Jan. 28, will mark the 40-year anniversary of the Challenger explosion, one of the biggest tragedies in NASA history, which killed seven crew members aboard the space shuttle. This included Hawaii’s first ...
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It’s the Most Famous Line in NASA History. You’ve Heard It a Million Times. The Future of the Agency Now Depends on Remembering It.

“Houston, we have a problem” may be the most famous line in the annals of spaceflight. That’s what Tom Hanks, playing astronaut Jim Lovell, says in the movie Apollo 13. In reality, astronaut Jack Swigert said “Houston, we’ve had a problem ...

Why is NASA bothering to go back to the Moon if we’ve already been there?

Following Wednesday evening’s launch, NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman quipped about the long break in human flights to the Moon since Apollo 17. “After a brief 54-year intermission, NASA is back in the business of sending astronauts to the Moon,” he said at a post-launch news conference.

Passenger watches NASA's Artemis II launch from sky. See video from the air.

Airline passenger captured the Artemis II launch from the sky.