Artemis II: Astronauts send first pictures of Earth as rocket leaves orbit

France24 · 🇫🇷 public France · Apr 03, 2026 · 220 words · By Video by Ciara BOULMAN

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Claim 1: “We and our partners use cookies or similar technologies to access and store non-sensitive information such as your IP address.”

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Claim 2: “The #ArtemisII astronauts have left #Earth's orbit, becoming the first humans to do so since 1972.”

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Artemis III is planned to be the second crewed mission of the NASA-led Artemis lunar exploration program. The mission's objectives are to conduct tests in low Earth orbit with one or both commercially…
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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 — Artemis II is a 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 NASA astron…
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Claim 3: “They are now headed for the #Moon, which they will fly around in the coming days.”

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Artemis I, formerly Exploration Mission-1 (EM-1), was an uncrewed Moon-orbiting mission that launched on November 16, 2022. As the first major spaceflight of NASA's Artemis program, Artemis I marked t…
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