Nasa Artemis II Launch Live Updates: NASA’s Artemis II has successfully launched on its historic mission to fly around the Moon. It is the first crewed flight of both the Orion spacecraft and the Space Launch System (SLS) rocket. The crew will travel on a free-return path, using the Moon’s gravity to help bring them safely back to Earth.
At its farthest point, the spacecraft will go about 4,700 miles beyond the Moon, the deepest human travel in space in over 50 years.
NASA says the mission will test key systems, with the most critical phase expected to be the high-speed reentry at about 25,000 mph. The mission is seen as a major step toward long-term human presence on the Moon and future crewed missions to Mars.
