{"id":21268,"date":"2026-04-03T00:42:53","date_gmt":"2026-04-02T16:42:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/for-the-first-time-in-over-50-years-humans-are-on-their-way-to-the-moon\/"},"modified":"2026-04-03T00:42:53","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T16:42:53","slug":"for-the-first-time-in-over-50-years-humans-are-on-their-way-to-the-moon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/for-the-first-time-in-over-50-years-humans-are-on-their-way-to-the-moon\/","title":{"rendered":"For the first time in over 50 years, humans are on their way to the Moon"},"content":{"rendered":"
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At 6:32 PM ET Wednesday afternoon, NASA launched its Artemis 2 mission from Kennedy Space Center. This mission is the first crewed mission of the Artemis Program, an initiative to return humans to the surface of the Moon.<\/p>\n

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The Space Launch System, the rocket NASA designed for its Artemis crewed missions, completed a nominal ascent into space after lifting off from LC-39B at Kennedy Space Center. The mission, Artemis 2, is a crewed test flight of the SLS rocket and Orion spacecraft and will spend two weeks in space as it flies around the Moon.<\/p>\n

This mission is the first crewed mission to the Moon since Apollo 17, which launched back in 1972 and concluded lunar landings for half a century. On board are NASA astronauts Reid Wiseman (commander), Victor Glover (pilot), Christina Koch, and Canadian (CSA) astronaut Jeremy Hanson.<\/p>\n

This was NASA\u2019s first launch attempt of Artemis 2 after roughly a month of delays due to some rocket hardware that needed to be worked on in the VAB.<\/p>\n

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