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Spurred by American ingenuity, astronauts on NASA’s Artemis II mission are in flight, preparing for the first crewed lunar flyby in more than 50 years.
The Artemis II mission launched from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida at 4:35 MT/5:35 CT on Wednesday, April 1, carrying four astronauts away from the Earth and towards the moon on a spacecraft called Orion. The crew will have to travel some 244,000 miles (393,000 kilometers) away to reach the moon, which will take several days.
NASA’s Orion spacecraft is now orbiting Earth as astronauts perform system checks and fix onboard issues. The historic 10-day crewed mission will soon head for a Moon flyby, track every milestone and live developments on republicworld.