00:00Hey space fans! NASA's Artemis II mission is poised to take humans around the moon for the
00:05first time in over 50 years. Four astronauts, NASA's Reed Wiseman, Victor Glover, Christina
00:13Cook, and Jeremy Hansen of Canada, will climb aboard NASA's Orion spacecraft, which sits on top
00:19of the Space Launch System, one of the most powerful rockets ever built. You can see them
00:24here at the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex. The Artemis II journey is scheduled to take 10 days,
00:31swinging farther from Earth than any human space flight since Apollo 17, and looping around the moon
00:36before heading home. This isn't a landing mission. It's a proving flight. Artemis II will test the life
00:43support, communications, and deep space navigation systems everything we'll need to live and work on
00:50the moon for real. Why does it matter? Because Artemis II is the bridge between decades of dreaming
00:55and the moment we set foot on the moon again.
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