This NASA mission called Artemis 2 took off from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida at 12:35 a.m. French time.
More than 50 years after the end of the Apollo program and the last manned flight to the Moon, three men and a woman embarked this Wednesday for a ten-day lunar epic intended to inaugurate a new page in the American conquest of space.
NASA’s powerful lunar rocket took off Wednesday evening from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida with Americans Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover and Christina Koch, and Canadian Jeremy Hansen on board. Some 400,000 people were expected to attend its launch on site, reports the local press.
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The takeoff of the Artemis 2 lunar mission from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida can be followed live below.
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Risky adventure
For around ten days, they will venture to the Earth’s natural satellite to circle it without landing, like Apollo 8 in 1968. The adventure is risky, the spacecraft has never carried anyone and must reach the Moon, more than 384,000 kilometers from Earth – a thousand times further than the International Space Station. If the mission goes as planned, the astronauts will set a record by moving further from Earth than any human being before them.
