NASA's Artemis II moon rocket reaches launch pad
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Nevertheless, it will be the first to leave Low Earth Orbit (LEO) in 53 years. It will also be the first time that astronauts launch on top of NASA’s giant Space Launch System rocket and then swing around the Moon inside the Orion crew capsule.
NASA is now targeting February 2026 for the first crewed journey back to the Moon in more than half a century, a mission that would send astronauts around our celestial neighbor rather than landing on its surface. If the schedule holds, it will mark the ...