NASA, Artemis and moon
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Artemis II mission will take 4 astronauts on a trip around the moon. The vehicle that will send them there? A massive NASA Space Launch System rocket.
Bay Area scientists at NASA’s Ames Research Center are playing a key role in ensuring the success of Artemis II, the agency’s first crewed moon mission in more than 50 years.
The four astronauts — three Americans and one Canadian — spoke from a prelaunch quarantine ahead of their scheduled Wednesday mission.
NASA’s Artemis II mission, due to lift off on April 1, will see Christina Koch become the first woman ever to travel beyond low-Earth orbit toward the moon.
Astronaut Tim Peake and Guardian journalist Richard Luscombe talk through Artemis II, the first manned mission to the moon for 50 years