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NASA targets April 1 as launch date for first human mission around the moon since 1972
NASA is aiming for an April 1 launch date for a mission that will send astronauts around the moon and back as part of its ambitious lunar landing program. Four astronauts will fly aboard NASA’s Orion spacecraft, circle Earth and navigate around the moon ...
Smithsonian Magazine
NASA’s Artemis 2 Mission Launches, Sending Humans Toward the Moon for the First Time in More Than 50 Years
For the first time in more than 50 years, humans have blasted off toward the moon. Four astronauts aboard NASA’s Orion spacecraft launched on April 1 at 6:35 p.m. from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida for the highly anticipated Artemis 2 mission, a ...
New York Daily News
NASA launches astronauts into space with Artemis II moonshot
NASA astronauts Reid Wiseman, Christina Koch and Victor Glover and Canadian astronaut Jeremy Hansen become the first people to head towards the moon with the successful launch of Artemis II on Wednesday, April 1, 2026, from Kennedy Space Station in Cape ...
Time
NASA’s Historic Lunar Mission Launch, in Photos
NASA's Artemis II moon rocket lifts off from the Kennedy Space Center's Launch Pad 39-B in Cape Canaveral, Fla. on April 1, 2026. Story Connor Greene NASA’s Artemis II mission successfully launched from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Wednesday ...