Historic Artemis II moon mission lifts off, amid US lunar race with China
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“Historic Artemis II moon mission lifts off, amid US lunar race with China”
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— Firefly Aerospace Blue Ghost, or simply Blue Ghost, is a class of lunar landers designed and manufactured by the American company Firefly Aerospace. Firefly builds and operates Blue Ghost landers to d…
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— 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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— Victor Jerome Glover Jr. (born April 30, 1976) is a United States Navy captain, test pilot, and astronaut from the NASA Astronaut Group 21. He was the pilot on the first operational flight of the Spac…
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“After repeated setbacks, Nasa is sending four astronauts around the moon and further from Earth than ever before”
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— Artemis II is an ongoing lunar flyby mission under the Artemis program, that launched on April 1, 2026, from the Kennedy Space Center. The ten-day mission is currently carrying NASA astronauts Reid Wi…
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— 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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— 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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“Four astronauts lifted off on Wednesday on a trip around the moon marking humankind’s deepest venture into space”
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— 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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— Dr. Artemis Fowl II is the eponymous character of the Artemis Fowl series by Eoin Colfer. Colfer has said that he based Artemis on his younger brother Donal, who as a child was "a mischievous mastermi…
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— Artemis II is an ongoing lunar flyby mission under the Artemis program, that launched on April 1, 2026, from the Kennedy Space Center. The ten-day mission is currently carrying NASA astronauts Reid Wi…
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“The Nasa mission dubbed Artemis II has been years in the making after facing repeated setbacks and massive cost overruns”
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“Anxiety briefly spiked when less than two hours before the launch window was to open, Nasa said engineers identified a technical issue related to the rocket’s flight termination system, a key safety mechanism”
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“But cheers rang out among spectators gathered around a live broadcast when a US space agency official said the problem was resolved”
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“The team featuring Americans Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover and Christina Koch along with Canadian Jeremy Hansen is on a roughly 10-day mission to hurtle around Earth’s nearest celestial neighbour without landing – much like Apollo 8 did in 1968”
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“The journey marks a series of historic accomplishments: it sends the first person of colour, the first woman and the first non-American on a lunar mission”
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