After 50 years, the United States is returning to the moon with an early launch of Artemis I, a high-profile mission that has been decades in the making.
“So far, everything is going very smoothly,” said assistant launch director Jeremy Graeber about an hour into fueling.
Artemis I is the first part of the Artemis mission, with the goal of completing a lunar orbit. The mission debuts the Space Launch System rocket, also known as SLS. The uncrewed Orion spacecraft, which is a larger and more complex successor to the Apollo craft, is stacked atop the SLS rocket. After liftoff, the Orion capsule will fly a 1.3-million-mile journey for roughly a month to the lunar orbit and back.
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