00:00NASA's Artemis II mission is scheduled to lift off at 6.24 p.m. from the Kennedy Space Center in
00:06Florida.
00:07Aboard the mission is Commander Reed Weissman, Pilot Victor Glover, Astronaut Christina Cook, and Canadian Astronaut Jeremy Hansen.
00:15It will be the first crewed mission beyond low-Earth orbit since Apollo 17 in 1972,
00:21and will set several human spaceflight records, including Glover becoming the first person of color,
00:27Cook, the first woman, and Hansen, the first non-U.S. citizen, to travel to the moon's vicinity.
00:33The roughly 10-day mission will send the crew on a lunar flyby, not a landing,
00:38to test the Orion spacecraft with a splashdown in the Pacific Ocean expected on April 10.
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