NASA's Artemis II Mission Launches to Moon

NASA's Artemis II mission, carrying four astronauts, successfully launched from Florida's Kennedy Space Center on a nine-day voyage around the Moon. This mission marks the most ambitious lunar endeavor in generations and the first crewed flight beyond Earth's orbit since the Apollo era ended in 1972. The powerful Space Launch System rocket propelled the Orion spacecraft, testing critical systems for future lunar landings. The crew will travel farther from Earth than any humans before, observing the far side of the Moon before returning for a splashdown in the Pacific Ocean.