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Four astronauts blasted off aboard a massive NASA rocket on Wednesday (April 1, 2026) on a long-anticipated journey around the Moon, the first crewed lunar flyby in more than 50 years.

With an intense roar that reverberated far beyond the launchpad, the enormous orange-and-white rocket carried three Americans and one Canadian away from Florida’s Kennedy Space Centre at approximately 6:35 p.m. local time, according to an AFP journalist onsite. “We’re going to the Moon!” yelled a spectator.

The Artemis II mission uses the Space Launch System (SLS) rocket and the crew capsule is called Orion. The SLS will propel Orion into a free-return trajectory around the far side of the moon, reaching around 7,500 km from the moon’s surface before the earth’s gravity pulls them back to splash down in the Pacific Ocean in a little over a week.

The mission does not plan to land on the moon. Instead, NASA is flying it to prove that the whole system — from the ground teams to the rocket and its crew — works as designed and the processes to land humans on the moon are ready.



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