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10 days in space: How the Artemis II rocket will get NASA astronauts to the moon and back

NASA's Artemis II mission will send Americans Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover and Christina Hammock Koch and Canadian Jeremy Hansen on a 10-day journey around the moon.

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NASA’s giant moon rocket ready for Florida Artemis 2 launch. What to know

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Moon rocket and weather are on NASA’s side for the first astronaut launch in decades

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Looking back at NASA’s moon missions ahead of Artemis II launch

NASA is set to launch astronauts around the moon for the first time in 50 years.

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Nasa gives final briefing before Artemis II Moon mission launch

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Live / NASA launches Artemis II rocket on mission to the moon

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Artemis II launch LIVE: Who are the two backup crewmembers for NASA's historic mission?

Besides the Artemis II mission's primary four-person crew, NASA has picked two alternate crewmembers as backups.

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NASA Artemis II countdown: Here's what happens from now until launch

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See animation of NASA's Artemis II mission around the moon

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A Manned NASA Rocket Is Headed to the Moon. There Are Questions on Its Safety.

Artemis II is scheduled to blast off this week, but a former astronaut and heat-shield expert has major concerns.

How the engines of the Artemis II rocket flew on NASA's space shuttle

NASA's Artemis II mission will launch with SLS rocket engines that have flown multiple times on past space shuttle missions. Here's their story.

NASA is leading the way to the Moon, but the military won’t be far behind

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Florida — The US military has always been part of NASA’s human spaceflight program. The first astronauts were nearly all military pilots, and two of the four crew members set to fly around the Moon on NASA’s Artemis II mission were Navy test pilots before joining the astronaut corps.

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NASA wants a nuclear rocket in space - then the timeline got wild

NASA is finally reviving one of the boldest ideas in space history: a nuclear-powered rocket engine. What makes it so intriguing is that this is not some brand-new fantasy, but a concept the U.S. nearly had working decades ago before politics and fear shut it down.

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What it's like to be on Florida's Space Coast ahead of Artemis launch

Huge crowds are gathering around the Kennedy Space Centre to see the launch of the historic moon mission.