Artemis Astronauts Lift Off For Orion Spacecraft Checkout

Artemis mission

The first crewed Artemis mission lifted off from the Kennedy Space Center on April 1.

Credit: Bill Ingalls/NASA
More than a half-century after the last Apollo Moon mission, the U.S. resumed a deep-space human exploration program with the launch of the first Artemis crew on a shakedown cruise to prepare for future lunar landings. Like Apollo, the Artemis initiative is proceeding against a backdrop of political...
Irene Klotz

Irene Klotz is Senior Space Editor for Aviation Week, based in Cape Canaveral. Before joining Aviation Week in 2017, Irene spent 25 years as a wire service reporter covering human and robotic spaceflight, commercial space, astronomy, science and technology for Reuters and United Press International.

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