Artemis II astronauts rocket toward moon
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Excitement is building on Florida’s Space Coast as NASA prepares to send a crew of astronauts to the moon for the first time in over 50 years.
The Artemis 2 launch will see four astronauts on a ten-day mission that will take them further into space than ever before as part of a wider NASA plan to send humans to Mars
Three Americans and one Canadian will embark on a 10-day journey as part of the Artemis II mission, the first to be crewed beyond low Earth orbit since the Apollo era.