NASA provides update on Artemis 2 moon mission. What you may have missed
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NASA's Artemis 2 mission is targeting an April 1 launch, sending a crew of astronauts on a historic trip around the moon.
Once again, NASA may be on the cusp of sending a crew of astronauts on a lunar mission for the first time in more than five decades.
Officials with the U.S. space agency have announced that plans are on track for a mission known as Artemis 2 to get off the ground in April from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The news comes after the Artemis 2 launch slipped first from February to March before more issues with NASA's towering Space Launch System prompted another monthlong delay.
Artemis 2 represents the second mission under NASA's multibillion-dollar campaign to return Americans to the surface of the moon ahead of the first crewed voyages to Mars. When the mission does get off the ground, a crew of three Americans and one Canadian will fly on a historic 10-day trip without a lunar landing, where they will see parts of the far side of the moon that not even Apollo astronauts witnessed.
Here's everything to know about the Artemis 2 mission and NASA's latest target launch date.
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NASA's Artemis 2 mission is targeting an April 1 launch, sending a crew of astronauts on a historic trip around the moon.