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NASA's Artemis II astronauts are launching to the moon today. Watch it here
Cheers erupted throughout the control room at Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Wednesday as NASA's Artemis II mission to send four astronauts to the moon rocketed skyward. The 322-foot-tall, orange-and-white SLS rocket blasted off at 6:35 Eastern Daylight Time. Perched atop it was the Orion capsule, the spacecraft set to take its crew โ NASA astronauts Reid Wiseman, Christina Koch and Victor Glover as well as Canadian Space Agency astronaut Jeremy Hansen โ on a 230,000-mile trip around the moon and back. "We have a beautiful moonrise โ we're headed right at it," Wiseman, the mission commander, told the control room just minutes after launch. If successful, Artemis II will mark the first time humans have returned to the moon since the last Apollo mission in 1972 โ and the first time that a woman, a person of color, and a non-American have made the journey. The crew members will first orbit Earth so that they can check out key systems on their spacecraft, including life support, communication, and navigation. Then they'll fire their vehicle's propulsion system to send themselves on a looping figure-eight path around the moon and back, ending with a splashdown into the Pacific Ocean. It...
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April's full 'Pink Moon' rises tonight โ just as NASA readies its Artemis 2 moon mission
The "Pink Moon" will rise on the same day Artemis 2 is due to launch a crew of 4 to lunar space.
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NASA's Artemis II Live Mission Coverage (Official Broadcast)
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There's a bit of toilet trouble on NASA's Artemis 2 mission to the moon
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. โ There's a little potty problem on NASA's Artemis 2 moon ship. Within hours of launch on Wednesday evening (April 1), the four astronauts of NASA's Artemis 2 moon mission reported a glitch in what may have been the most anticipated new creature comfort of their Orion spacecraft: their space toilet. Artemis 2 mission specialist Christina Koch noted an issue starting up part of the Orion capsule's toilet โ which NASA calls the Universal Waste Management System โ that deals with urine collection. "The toilet fan is reported to be jammed," NASA spokesperson Gary Jordan said during live mission commentary. "Now the ground teams are coming up with instructions on how to get into the fan and clear that area to revive the toilet for the mission." Norm Knight, NASA's director of flight operations, told reporters here at the Kennedy Space Center that the malfunction was due to a controller issue on the toilet. But NASA confirmed that astronauts can still use the space commode to poop, just not urinate for now, though engineers are working to restore it to full service. "In the meantime, they're getting their contingency โ their backup waste management capabilities specifically for...