NASA, Artemis and Moon
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SLS and the Orion spacecraft are fully stacked together inside NASA’s Vehicle Assembly Building (VAB) at Kennedy Space Center. Once final tests are complete, the launch vehicle will be rolled out onto the pad at Launch Complex-39A, which should take about 10 hours.
NASA says it is continuing to prepare for a possible Artemis 2 launch as soon as February, but with remarkably little publicity for the historic mission.
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Artemis 2 could launch in 1 month, NASA nears a moon flyby milestone
NASA is entering the tightest stretch yet before its first crewed lunar voyage of the Artemis era, with Artemis 2 now poised to fly astronauts around the moon roughly one month from now if final tests hold.
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NASA is sending humans toward the moon again after 50 years — sooner than you think
The world has achieved great feats in lunar exploration, including humans landing on the Moon's surface. However, it's been more than 50 years since the Apollo 17 astronauts visited Earth's neighbor in 1972.
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Artemis II gets patriotic makeover as NASA prepares to send crew around the moon
NASA's Artemis II will celebrate America's 250th anniversary while flying the first humans to the Moon since Apollo 17 in 1972.
NASA’s Artemis II moon mission highlights the Space Coast’s 2026 launch manifest, which also could see Blue Origin’s moon lander and the arrival of SpaceX’s Starship.
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