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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — It’s humanity’s first flight to the moon since 1972.
Key facts
- NASA’s new Space Launch System rocket stands 322 feet (98 meters), shorter than the Apollo program’s Saturn V rocket but more powerful at liftoff thanks to a pair of strap-on boosters
- Glover, a Navy test pilot, was the first Black astronaut to live and work aboard the space station in 2020 and 2021
- Instead of fancy range finders, they’ll rely on their eyes to judge the gap, venturing no closer than 33 feet (10 meters) to the stage
- If all goes as planned, Orion’s main engine will hurl the crew to the moon some 244,000 miles (393,000 kilometers) away
Summary
In a throwback to Apollo, NASA’s Artemis II mission will send four astronauts on a lunar fly-around. NASA promises more boot prints in the gray lunar dust, but not before a couple practice missions. The moon is about to welcome its first woman, first person of color and first non-American. Koch already holds the record for the longest single spaceflight by a woman.