NASA's Artemis II crewed lunar mission launched successfully on April 1 at 6:35 PM Eastern Time from Launch Pad 39A at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida. The world's most powerful rocket, the Space Launch System, carried the Orion spacecraft with four astronauts aboard.
The crew consists of Reid Wiseman, Jeremy Hansen, Christina Koch, and Victor Glover. Glover became the first African American and Koch the first woman to take part in a lunar mission. Over the course of 10 days, the crew will fly around the Moon and return to Earth.
Prior to launch, the rocket was loaded with over 2.65 million liters of cryogenic propellant, bringing its total mass to around 2,600 tonnes. The mission had been delayed from its original March launch date due to a helium supply issue in the SLS booster.
Artemis II is the second phase of the US lunar programme. The first — Artemis I — was an uncrewed test flight completed in 2022. The third phase, Artemis III, will land humans on the Moon for the first time in over 50 years, with the long-term goal of establishing a staging base for future missions to Mars.
Why is NASA's Artemis II mission a landmark step in humanity's return to the Moon?
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