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NASA's Artemis II mission will send four astronauts around the moon. Follow their journey with the agency's official real-time online tracker.
NASA plans to make history today (April 1) with the launch of Artemis 2, the first crewed moon mission since Apollo 17 in 1972.
NASA’s Artemis II mission will send four astronauts around the moon. Here’s how the SLS rocket and Orion spacecraft will work.
Here's how NASA plans to send four astronauts on a trip around the moon, the first time that anyone would travel this far from Earth since the end of the Apollo program in 1972.
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