CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla.—Humanity’s next ride to the moon made its way out to the launchpad on Jan. 17, and NASA leadership marked the special occasion as the culmination of the global effort that made it a reality.
“We see this beautiful hardware behind us, the SLS, the Orion,” NASA astronaut and Artemis II mission commander Reid Wiseman said at a press conference.
“But for this crew, we’ve been on this journey for about two and a half years, and we just, we truly look at that and see teamwork. We see global cooperation. We see a strong nation leading the way.”…