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🚨: WE'RE LAUNCHING ASTRONAUTS TO THE MOON TODAY!!! 🌕 Artemis II is the first crewed mission to the Moon since Apollo 17 in 1972. The SLS rocket and Orion spacecraft are on the pad at Kennedy Space Center, and everything is GO for launch The Crew (first humans beyond low-Earth orbit in 53 years): • Commander Reid Wiseman (NASA) • Pilot Victor Glover (NASA) • Mission Specialist Christina Koch (NASA) • Mission Specialist Jeremy Hansen (Canadian Space Agency) They’ll fly in the Orion spacecraft nicknamed Integrity on a ~10-day lunar flyby (no landing ..that’s for Artemis III later). The mission will push humans farther into space than ever before on a free-return trajectory around the Moon