For the first time in more than 53 years, humans have begun a journey to the Moon.
NASA’s long-delayed Artemis II mission began at 6:35:12 p.m. Eastern Wednesday with the liftoff of the Space Launch System rocket from the Kennedy Space Center’s Launch Complex 39B. This was only the second flight of SLS, 3.5 years after a successful debut in November 2022 that sent an uncrewed Orion spacecraft on a flyby around the Moon.

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