Artemis II astronauts set off for moon journey - A key mission in the US's flagship program
Four astronauts launched from Florida on NASA's Artemis II mission, a high-risk 10-day trip around the moon that marks the United States' boldest step yet toward returning humans to the lunar surface this decade ahead of China's first manned landing.
NASA's Space Launch System (SLS) rocket, carrying the Orion crew capsule, fired up just before sunset at the agency's Kennedy Space Center to lift the first crew of three American astronauts and one Canadian off Earth, a powerful ascent that left behind a giant column of thick white steam.
After nearly three years of training, they are the first group to fly in NASA's Artemis program, a series of multibillion-dollar missions created in 2017 to build a long-term U.S. presence on the moon over the next decade and beyond.
The launch was a milestone that lasted more than a decade in the preparation of the US space agency's SLS rocket, giving its prime contractors, Boeing and Northrop Grumman, long-awaited proof that the 30-story system can send people to space safely, as NASA increasingly relies on newer, cheaper rockets from Elon Musk's SpaceX and others.
The Artemis II mission is a key early step in the US's flagship Moon program, which aims for the first crewed landing on the lunar surface in 2028 on the Artemis IV mission.
NASA is under pressure to achieve that moon landing, the first since the last Apollo mission in 1972, as China expands its lunar program with a planned landing of astronauts as early as 2030.
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