NASA launches Artemis II mission to Moon

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NASA’s Artemis II mission to the Moon was successfully launched from Kennedy Space Center’s Launch Complex 39B in Florida at 6:35 p.m on Wednesday.

The four-person crew will go on a 685,000-mile, 10-day journey around the moon, also known as a lunar fly-by.

Artemis II is a lunar flyby mission under the Artemis program. Launched from Kennedy Space Center, the ten-day mission is intended to carry NASA astronauts Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, and Christina Koch, along with Canadian Space Agency astronaut Jeremy Hansen, on a free-return trajectory around the Moon and back to Earth.

By Shishir Prashant

Shishir Prashant is a senior journalist with extensive experience across some of India’s leading media organisations, including PTI, Business Standard, Deccan Herald, Moneycontrol.com and Kashmir Times. With a career spanning diverse facets of journalism, he brings deep expertise in politics, business, environment, sports, entertainment, education, current affairs and ground-level reporting, with a particular focus on Uttarakhand.

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