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NASA set for historic Artemis II moon mission

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Artemis II launch LIVE: NASA begins final checks before today's planned launch of historic moon mission

NASA is targeting a two-hour launch window that opens at 6.24 p.m. ET on Wednesday (April 1).

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How will Artemis 2 be different from NASA's Apollo moon missions?

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NASA’s Artemis preparing to launch for historic moon flyby

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Artemis II mission set to launch from Kennedy Space Center Wednesday

Four astronauts are scheduled to launch on the Artemis II mission for a 10-day trip around the moon.

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The Latest: Fueling begins as NASA aims to send 1st crew to the moon in 53 years

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NASA Artemis II astronauts prepping for busy morning ahead of moon launch

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Live updates: NASA readies to launch Artemis II astronauts around the moon

The crew — NASA astronauts Reid Wiseman, Christina Koch and Victor Glover and Canadian astronaut Jeremy Hansen — will be the first people to launch toward the moon since the Apollo 17 mission in 1972,...

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4 astronauts are set to launch on Artemis II, the first crewed moon mission in decades

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Artemis II launch live updates as NASA moon mission counts down to historic flight

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NASA/JPL’s ‘Deep Space Network’ team’s latest mission: Make sure Artemis II astronauts receive and send data, radio calls

Helping the astronauts of Artemis II speak to the folks on Earth is the Deep Space Network, operated out of Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena.

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SpaceX launches space station crew on 8-month mission

With NASA's delayed Artemis II moon mission on hold, SpaceX pressed ahead with a Friday the 13th launch of four fresh crew members to the International Space Station in a mission to replace four fliers who came home early last month because of a medical ...

NASA Counts Down for First Crewed Lunar Mission in Half a Century

NASA is set to launch four astronauts ⁠as ⁠soon as Wednesday evening on a 10-day flight ⁠around the moon, marking the most ambitious U.S. space mission in decades and a major step toward returning humans to the lunar surface before China's first crewed landing.