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NASA Artemis II launches crewed lunar flight from KSC 39B on April 1

SLS and Orion lifted off April 1 at 18:35 with astronauts Wiseman, Glover, Koch, and Hansen aboard for a roughly 10-day lunar flyby. First crewed beyond-low-Earth-orbit flight since Apollo 17.

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