00:00Four, three, two, one, booster ignition.
00:05That was the moment that NASA sent astronauts back toward the moon for the first time in more than 50
00:10years.
00:11Artemis II is a dress rehearsal, first for NASA's Space Launch System, or SLS, developed by Boeing,
00:17which generated almost 9 million pounds of thrust when it lifted off from Kennedy Space Center, launch complex 39B, here
00:25in Florida.
00:26Initially, there's this two-day orbit of the Earth at different altitudes, practicing burns, practicing manual control of the Orion
00:35spacecraft before a translunar injection.
00:38That then puts the crew on a slingshot around the far side of the moon, 250,000 miles of distance,
00:45a total round trip of 685,000 miles at 1.4,000 miles from the moon's surface.
00:53And in that time, the crew on board are going to be practicing maneuvers, manual control of the spacecraft, communication
01:00systems, emergency procedures.
01:02Because Artemis II is just one step in a bigger picture plan to return astronauts to the moon's surface, potentially
01:10as soon as 2028.
01:11That is America and NASA's goal.
01:13And it's been an expensive enterprise, $4 billion per launch, a $93 billion program cost.
01:19And it's a race against China, who have their own ambitions to land on the moon, they've stated, 2030.
01:26The crew of Artemis II are expected to splash down on the west coast of the United States in 10
01:31days' time.
01:32This is Ed Ludlow for Bloomberg News at Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
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01:37We aren't on a tape deck of what we have determined.
01:37We can see even if we need them for a follow-up yet.
01:38This was a blast associated track.
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