🚀 The First Crewed Lunar Mission in 54 Years, Artemis II, Has Launched

At 6:35 p.m. Eastern time, the SLS rocket carrying the Orion spacecraft lifted off from Launch Complex 39B at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida.

Four astronauts—Reid Wiseman, Jeremy Hansen, Christina Koch, and Victor Glover—will fly around the Moon and return to Earth over the course of a 10-day mission.

In 2028, as part of the fourth Artemis mission, astronauts are expected to land on the Moon.

⏳ Before Artemis, the last crewed lunar mission was Apollo 17. In 1972, American astronauts landed on the Moon for the sixth time, a feat that remains the most recent lunar landing to this day.

Do we need more missions to the Moon?

❤️ — Yes, it is our base for space exploration
🔥 — No, we should focus on Earth

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