00:00NASA is preparing to launch the first crew of astronauts to the Moon in over 53 years with its
00:06second Artemis mission. Not since Apollo 17 in 1972 have humans touched down on the Moon's surface,
00:13a tricky feat NASA aims to repeat in 2028. Three US and one Canadian astronaut are due for liftoff
00:19aboard NASA's Orion capsule and Space Launch System rocket on Wednesday, April 1.
00:24They will do a 10-day test mission, swinging around the Moon and back. The astronauts on board will
00:29test critical life support systems through interfaces, navigation, and communications.
00:34While we're at the Moon, we're gonna take images and look at the far side of the Moon. We're gonna
00:39take our astronauts farther than any human has ever been from Earth before, so we'll break the record
00:45from Apollo. The US is the only country to have put humans on another celestial body with its six
00:51Apollo landings, driven by competition with the former Soviet Union. Artemis is NASA's return to
00:58the Moon, and they're doing it similarly to what was done in the Apollo program in the 1960s, which is
01:04you have incremental steps towards being able to get to an actual landing.
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