Artemis: NASA's Moon Mission & Global Space Race

0:00It's April 1st, Adelaide News. Today starts now. AI-powered and ready. I'm Cory with the story. NASA's firing up Artemis II today, looping astronauts around the moon for the first time in over 50 years. This crude test flight marks a huge step since Apollo days, no landing yet, but it's building toward humans back on the surface. Enter Jeffrey Hoffman, a veteran astronaut who flew five space shuttle missions, racking up over 1,200 hours in orbit. He's glued to the launch, drawing from his own wild ride in the stars. Hoffman came of age, right as the space race kicked off. Sputnik beaming overhead, first Americans in space, Apollo triumphs. Sci-Fi heroes like Flash Gordon fueled his dream to join the action. Artemis sets the stage for lunar landings and a lasting base up there. But China's pushing hard to plan boots on the moon before 2030, sparking this fresh global space showdown. Hoffman breaks it down, humanity's charging back to the moon to claim the future. One orbit at a time.