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Artemis II blasts closer to the far side of the Moon

BBC News · 🇬🇧 public United Kingdom · · 634 words · By Pallab Ghosh
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What to know about Artemis II blasts closer to the far side of the Moon

Artemis II blasts ever closer to the far side of the Moon The four astronauts on the Artemis II mission have now left the Earth's orbit, after their Orion spacecraft fired its main engine for a final push towards the Moon.

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What happened

Artemis II blasts ever closer to the far side of the Moon The four astronauts on the Artemis II mission have now left the Earth's orbit, after their Orion spacecraft fired its main engine for a final push towards the Moon.

Why it matters

The five minute and 55 second engine burn, known as the translunar injection (TLI), went "flawlessly", Nasa's Dr Lori Glaze said afterwards.

Common ground

And from the Orion capsule, Canadian astronaut Jeremy Hansen said the crew was "feeling pretty good up here on our way to the Moon".

Perspective signals

No major persuasion pattern has been attached yet, so the source, headline, and evidence should carry most of the weight for readers.

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Claim 1: “The four astronauts on the Artemis II mission have now left the Earth's orbit, after their Orion spacecraft fired its main engine for a final push towards the Moon”
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Artemis II is a ten-day 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 mission is crewed by NASA astron…
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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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Claim 2: “The TLI propelled the spacecraft on a journey that is expected to carry the crew farther from Earth than anyone has been before - more than 4,700 miles (7,600 km) beyond the Moon”
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Claim 3: “The Orion program team ran hundreds of thousands of [simulations] to ensure that we are able to get the crew home safely”
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Claim 4: “Earth is slowly shrinking, as the capsule moves further and further into space”
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Claim 5: “It is the first time since 1972 that humans have travelled outside of the Earth's orbit”
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Artemis II is a ten-day 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 mission is crewed by NASA astron…
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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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Claim 6: “NASA estimates that this could edge past the record set by Apollo 13 in 1970, depending on the fine details of the timing and trajectory”
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Claim 7: “The Artemis II crew will get to see a total solar eclipse approximately six days into the mission”
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Claim 8: “Artemis II blasts ever closer to the far side of the Moon”
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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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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Artemis II is a ten-day 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 mission is crewed by NASA astron…
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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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Claim 9: “Jeremy Hansen is the first non-American to travel to the Moon”
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Claim 10: “The translunar injection (TLI) is not a point of no return for Orion - even after the big burn to the Moon, controllers can still carry out the equivalent of a handbrake turn in space and bring the crew back to Earth if something goes seriously wrong”
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