CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla.—Humanity is on its way back to the moon.
NASA astronauts Reid Wiseman (Commander), Victor Glover (Pilot), and Christina Koch (Mission Specialist), and Canadian Space Agency astronaut Jeremy Hansen (Mission Specialist) successfully launched from Florida’s Kennedy Space Center at approximately 6:35 p.m on April 1 on their 10-day Artemis II mission around the moon and back.
This marked the first crewed flight of both NASA’s behemoth moon rocket, called the Space Launch System, and the Orion Crew Capsule. It will also be the first crewed test flight of the Orion’s service module, which was provided by the European Space Agency and contains power, environmental controls, and propulsion….