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NASA’s Artemis II mission marked the first time in more than 50 years that humans traveled around the moon. A crew of four astronauts completed a 10-day journey around the moon and back, launching the first crewed flight of the Artemis program. The initiative aims to land people on the Moon by 2028 and eventually establish a sustained presence there.
Artemis II functioned as a test flight, with the main goal of proving the critical systems required for a future lunar landing mission. This included the Space Launch System (SLS) rocket and the Orion crew capsule. Orion flew around the far side of the moon, and the astronauts were further away from the Earth than any of the Apollo missions. During the moon flyby, the astronauts took images of the moon’s far side and of the solar eclipse seen from space.
Source: NBC News
