Manned mission to Moon fires engines to leave Earth’s orbit

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Nasa’s first manned Moon mission in more than five decades fired its rockets early on Friday to break out of Earth’s orbit.The four astronauts on the Artemis II mission, which launched from Cape Canaveral in Florida on Wednesday evening, spent the first 25 hours of the flight circling the Earth.Firing the rockets on the Orion spacecraft – officially called a translunar injection burn – will send them towards the Moon, which they will circle before returning to Earth.

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00:00We have the start of the trans lunar injection burn that will send the crew around the moon,

00:04the first humans to do so in over 50 years.

00:07Well, the first thing I would say is, trust us, you look amazing.

00:10You look beautiful.

00:12And from up here, you also look like one thing, you know, homo sapiens is all of us, no matter

00:17where you're from or, you know, what you look like, we're all one people.

00:21Because this brought us together and showed us what we can do when we put, not just putting

00:26our differences aside, when we bring our differences together and use all the strengths to accomplish

00:30something great.

00:42Two minutes into this five minute and fifty five zero second burn, these live views coming

00:48from Orion as it looks back on Earth, leaving high Earth orbit and beginning its journey

00:54to the moon.

00:55We are now 230 miles above Earth, 246,500 miles away from the moon.

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