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Artemis II blasts closer to the far side of the Moon

BBC News · · 710 words · By Pallab Ghosh
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“Artemis II leaves Earth orbit on track for 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 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 — 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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“The four astronauts aboard the Artemis II mission's Orion capsule have now left Earth orbit after the spacecraft fired its main engine for a final push towards the Moon”
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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 — 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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“The five minute and 50 second engine burn, known as the translunar injection (TLI), went 'flawlessly'”
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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 — 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 Temple of Artemis or Artemision (Greek: Ἀρτεμίσιον; Turkish: Artemis Tapınağı), also known as the Temple of Diana, was a Greek temple dedicated to a localised form of the goddess Artemis (equated …
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“Artemis II is now on a looping path that will carry the crew around the far side of the Moon and back again. It is the first time since 1972 that humans have left Earth orbit”
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“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 - before gravity swings them back”
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“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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“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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“On about the sixth day of the mission, as Orion cruises beyond the Moon, the astronauts will get to see a total solar eclipse”
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“The Moon will slide directly in front of the Sun so its bright face is completely covered to reveal its normally concealed shimmering halo, with Earth hanging off to one side”
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“The astronauts said in their maiden video call they had been 'glued to the window' as the view changed before them”
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