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Artemis II astronauts describe 'spectacular moment' in space after leaving Earth's orbit

BBC News · 🇬🇧 public United Kingdom · · 207 words · By Live Reporting Edited by Marita Moloney; With Reporting; Esme Stallard
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What to know about Artemis II astronauts describe 'spectacular moment' in space after leaving Earth's orbit

To the Moon and likely farther than any human has gone beforepublished at 09:42 BST Pallab Ghosh Science correspondent, reporting from Cape Canaveral Orion is on its way, bringing four humans towards the Moon for the first time in more than 50 years.

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What happened

To the Moon and likely farther than any human has gone beforepublished at 09:42 BST Pallab Ghosh Science correspondent, reporting from Cape Canaveral Orion is on its way, bringing four humans towards the Moon for the first time in more than 50 years.

Why it matters

From this point, Artemis II is on a long, looping path that has been estimated to carry the crew farther from Earth than anyone has ever travelled, swinging around the far side of the Moon before gravity guides them home.

Common ground

Over the next few days, the views outside their windows will become steadily more inspirational and beautiful: Earth shrinking to a small blue white marble behind them and the Moon growing from a bright disc into a heavily cratered world filling the frame.

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Claim 1: “Orion is on its way, bringing four humans towards the Moon for the first time in more than 50 years.”
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Artemis II is an ongoing U.S. spaceflight to send four astronauts on a flyby around the Moon and back to Earth. Launched from Kennedy Space Center on April 1, 2026, the ten-day mission is crewed by NA…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Artemis program is a Moon exploration program led by the United States' National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), formally established in 2017 through Space Policy Directive 1. By 2028…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Orion Multi-Purpose Crew Vehicle (MPCV) is a partially reusable crewed spacecraft used in NASA's Artemis program. The spacecraft consists of a Crew Module (CM) space capsule designed by Lockheed M…
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Claim 2: “Artemis II is on a long, looping path that has been estimated to carry the crew farther from Earth than anyone has ever travelled”
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Claim 3: “The crew are set to capture this unique sight in images and video beamed back to us at home”
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Claim 4: “the astronauts are expected to witness a total solar eclipse from deep space”
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Artemis II is an ongoing U.S. spaceflight to send four astronauts on a flyby around the Moon and back to Earth. Launched from Kennedy Space Center on April 1, 2026, the ten-day mission is crewed by NA…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artemis_II
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Artemis IV is planned to be the third crewed mission and first lunar landing of the NASA-led Artemis program, marking the first crewed landing on the Moon since Apollo 17 in 1972. It will be the first…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Artemis program is a Moon exploration program led by the United States' National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), formally established in 2017 through Space Policy Directive 1. By 2028…
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