Four astronauts lifted off from Florida’s Kennedy Space Center on Wednesday, embarking on a historic 10-day mission to circumnavigate the moon.
The crew of the Artemis II — NASA’s Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover and Christina Koch, together with the Canadian Space Agency’s Jeremy Hansen — might journey farther from Earth than any people have earlier than. Their projected journey would take them past the moon’s far facet.
It has been greater than 50 years since astronauts have traveled to the moon.
Artemis II is not going to land on the lunar floor. But it should function a pathfinder mission for the uncrewed Artemis III mission, which is anticipated to the touch down close to the moon’s largely unexplored south pole.
The Artemis program’s overarching aim is to hash out how people can completely reside and work on the lunar floor.
Here are a few of the tales that made headlines over the previous week, in addition to some images that caught our eye.