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NASA’s Artemis II Mission Leaves Earth Orbit for Flight around Moon

3 Apr 2026, 02:48 GMT By Lauren E. Low
NASA’s Artemis II Mission Leaves Earth Orbit for Flight around Moon

For the first time in more than 50 years, astronauts on a NASA mission are bound to fly around the Moon after successfully completing a key burn of Orion’s main engine. With the approximately six-minute firing of the spacecraft’s service module engine on Thursday, known as the translunar injection burn, Orion and its crew of

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