And the moment has just happened, when the United States and its NASA (the National Aeronautics and Space Administration) reignited the quest to make a wider reach into the vast cosmos in space, with the launch of the manned Artemis II rocket on Wednesday evening. This marks the first attempt by our space agency at returning to orbit of the Earth's moon in more than 50 years:
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — NASA’s giant Space Launch System rocket blasted off Wednesday with four astronauts aboard, sending the first humans on a journey around the moon in more than half a century and kicking off a new era of deep-space exploration.
The towering rocket lifted off from Launch Pad 39B at Kennedy Space Center at 6:24 p.m. EDT, carrying NASA astronauts Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover and Christina Koch, along with Canadian Space Agency astronaut Jeremy Hansen, on the 10-day Artemis II test flight. The mission marks the first time a crew has flown aboard NASA’s new moon rocket and Orion spacecraft.
The flight comes more than 50 years after NASA’s Apollo 17 crew left the lunar surface in December 1972. Artemis II will not land on the moon but instead follow a free-return trajectory that loops around it, testing the Orion capsule’s life-support systems and heat shield in preparation for future landings.
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The report on the moonshot by Florida's Voice News, linked above, continued:
The crew is expected to travel farther from Earth than any humans before them, potentially beyond the 248,655-mile record set by Apollo 13 in 1970, before splashing down in the Pacific Ocean off California around April 11.
Watch:
Who doesn’t love rockets? pic.twitter.com/5rwrqUhCGY
— Katie Miller (@KatieMiller) April 1, 2026
LIFTOFF OF ARTEMIS II
— Max Evans (@_MaxQ_) April 1, 2026
Carrying the hopes and dreams of millions as four of humanity’s bravest ride a great pillar of fire destined for the Moon, carrying the pride of nations.
📸 - @NASASpaceflight pic.twitter.com/lvabLUs9uz
Indeed, who does not love rockets and wonder at space travel?
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