NASA, Artemis and moon rocket
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NASA is set to send four astronauts to the moon and back as the launch window for the upcoming Artemis II mission opens next Friday (6 February).
Forty years ago today, disaster struck NASA’s human spaceflight program when the space shuttle Challenger exploded 73 seconds after blastoff, killing all seven people onboard. The tragedy nearly brought the shuttle program to an early end.
The rocket is about to traverse four miles to the launchpad — at about 1 mph.