Artemis Two: First Human Flight Beyond Earth's Orbit in 50 Years

0:00It's April 3rd, you're listening to Year of News today, AI-powered coverage from across the continent. I'm Cory with the story. NASA's Artemis II mission just made history, marking the first time humans have broken free from Earth's orbit since Apollo 17 back in. 1972. The crew of four commander Reed Weisman, pilot Victor Glover, mission specialist Christina Koch, and Canadian astronaut Jeremy Hansen blasted off from Cape Canaveral in Florida on Wednesday evening. Early Friday, they fired the Orion spacecraft's rockets in a key maneuver called the Transluner injection burn, slinging them toward the moon on a free return trajectory that uses lunar gravity to loop back home. The astronauts were buzzing, glued to the windows soaking in the epic views, while NASA folks like Deputy Associate Administrator Laurie Glaze called it, a thrilling milestone for humanity's space game. The crew fixed the pesky toilet glitch and cranked up the cabin heat, all smooth now, with ground teams at places like the Goon-Hilly Earth station in.

1:03Cornwall tracking every move. Next up, a lunar flyby, Monday pushes them about 252,000 miles out, paving the road for actual moon landing soon, and even Mars. Trips down the line. This crew's orbit is just a spark re-igniting that deep space fire.