NASA targets April 1 to launch astronauts around the moon
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NASA plans to launch four astronauts on a long-awaited trip around the moon as early as April 1, the agency announced.
NASA plans to launch four astronauts on a long-awaited trip around the moon as early as April 1, it announced Thursday.
Lori Glaze, acting associate administrator of NASA’s Exploration Systems Development Mission Directorate, said teams are on track to roll the Space Launch System rocket and Orion spacecraft back to the launch pad at Florida’s Kennedy Space Center on March 19.
“Everything is going pretty well,” Glaze said at a news briefing.
The mission, called Artemis II, will be the first time on which NASA’s Space Launch System rocket and Orion capsule carry people. It will also be the first time astronauts have journeyed to the moon in more than 50 years.
On the 10-day mission, the crew — NASA astronauts Reid Wiseman, Christina Koch and Victor Glover and Canadian astronaut Jeremy Hansen — is expected to circle the moon, traveling farther from Earth than any humans have before.
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