NASA launches four astronauts towards the moon on the Artemis 2 mission

NASA’s Artemis II mission, which is scheduled to take four astronauts toward the moon for the first time in more than 50 years, successfully launched on Wednesday evening.

Artemis II mission, part of NASA’s Artemis program It aims to return humans to the moon As early as 2028will bring the four astronauts into lunar orbit on the first crewed flight of a Space Launch System (SLS) rocket. Astronauts Reed Wiseman, Victor Glover, Christina Koch, and Canadian Jeremy Hansen will make the trip aboard the Orion crew capsule, and the full mission is expected to take 10 days. Mission delayed In February Due to helium supply problem.

NASA recently She backed away from her plans to land on the moonturning the planned 2027 Artemis III mission from a lunar landing into a test flight. Instead, the Artemis IV mission, scheduled for 2028, will be the next planned attempt to land on the Moon. The last time NASA landed on the moon was during the Apollo 17 mission in 1972. It carried out Artemis I, an uncrewed mission in which the SLS launched the Orion capsule around the moon In 2022.

As I write this, NASA is live streaming the launch of Artemis II twitch and YouTube And live blogging about this topic on NASA websiteIf you want to continue.