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For the first time in more than half a century, humans are flying toward the moon.
At 6:35 p.m. Eastern on April 1, NASA’s Artemis II launched from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, setting out on a 10-day journey around the moon. The historic voyage is expected to carry the four-member crew deeper into space than any human before — more than 400,000 kilometers from Earth.
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