First US Artemis Astronaut Mission Around the Moon on Track for April, Officials Say
The Artemis II Orion crew and service modules sit inside the Operations & Checkoput Building during a NASA media day event at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida, U.S., March 7, 2025. (Reuters File)
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NASA officials on Tuesday said the agency’s first crewed flight in its Artemis program – a trip around the moon and back – is on track for launch in April next year and could potentially be moved up to February.
The space agency’s Artemis program is the flagship U.S. effort to return humans to the moon, a multibillion dollar series of missions that rival a similar effort by China, which is aiming for a 2030 astronaut moon landing.
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(Reporting by Joey Roulette)
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