00:00And on Wednesday in the United States, NASA's Artemis II mission took off from Kennedy Space Center in Florida,
00:05carrying four astronauts on a journey around the moon.
00:08Artemis II is the first crew mission of the Artemis program and the first journey of astronauts beyond Earth orbit
00:14since Apollo 17 in 1972.
00:17This launch comes after delays in February and March caused by technical issues with the rocket, including hydrogen leaks and
00:23a problem with helium flow.
00:25The crew, which includes NASA's Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover and Christina Koch, along with Canadian Space Agency astronaut Jeremy Hansen,
00:34could break the distance record set by the Apollo program traveling farther from Earth than any human ever has.
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