Artemis Two Blasts Off for Moon Mission

0:00On April 3rd, Artemis II blasted off from Kennedy Space Center on Wednesday evening, carrying four astronauts on humanity's first crewed moon mission. Since 1972, Reed Wiseman, Victor Glover, Christina Koch, and Jeremy Hanson from the Canadian Space Agency hit Orbit Quick, then nailed a key engine burn Thursday, just before APM. That six-minute push locked them on a free-return path around the moon, using gravity from Earth in the moon to sling them back safe. Earlier this week, the crew shared some real fire messages from space. Koch dropped, with his burn to the moon, we don't leave Earth, we choose it. Hansen hit mission control with, I, humanity's shown what we're capable of, and your hopes carry us now. NASA boss Jared Isaacman called it nominal, saying America is back-sending folks to the moon, farther than ever. Meanwhile, a Southwest Airlines passenger named Chris Papas caught the launch from his window, filming smoke trailing that flaming rocket against.

1:01Clear, blue skies. The video blew up online, with over 65,000 likes, folks losing it over the side view, showing just how fast it vanished. Comments poured in like, unreal timing, best perspective ever. Even questions on airspace, but launches visible from over 100 miles out. Things were perfect, though. A short comms glitch, men ground couldn't hear the crew for a bit, but upling word fine in its fix now. No. Issues with the ship. The burn cranked 6,000 pounds of thrust, accelerating like a car from 0 to 60 in under 3 seconds. This 10-day loop, pushing 250,000 miles out, sets the stage for moon landings by 2028, proving we're geared up for. That lunar rhythm, while teams at the pad prepped the next one,