NASA’s crew of astronauts launched to space and reached a stable orbit, kicking off a landmark journey that will take them closer to the lunar surface than anyone has been in more than 50 years.
The initial phase of the 10-day mission to lap the moon, a multibillion-dollar feat about a decade in the making, clears a major hurdle for NASA and its legacy aerospace contractors as the agency works to establish a base on the lunar surface and ultimately venture to Mars.
A view of Earth taken by NASA astronaut and Artemis II commander Reid Wiseman from the Orion spacecraft’s window after completing the translunar injection burn on April 2.
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The crew’s Lockheed Martin Corp.-built Orion capsule, stacked on the shoulders of Boeing Co. ...
