Relive Artemis I launch and start of 2002 moon mission that paved way for Aretmis II crew
Launching from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida during a full moon, the Artemis II mission is scheduled to be humanity’s first voyage toward the moon in over 50 years. The mission that seeks to orbit the moon with a crew of astronauts aboard comes less than four years after the Artemis I launch sent an unmanned rocket around the moon in 2022.
On Wednesday, the ArtemisI crew will be made up of three Americans and one Canadian on a 10-day journey that will take them around the moon and back.
More wild facts about Artemis II: https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2026/03/31/artemis-ii-by-the-numbers-how-fast-far-will-the-crew-go/89408537007/
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