Astronauts Blast Off on Historic Moon Mission

0:00Four astronauts just rocketed off from Kennedy Space Center on NASA's Artemis-2 mission, the first crew trip around the moon in over 50 years. The massive space launch system rocket blasted them skyward at 6.35 pm, eastern time, Wednesday, carrying three Americans, Reed Wiseman, Victor Glover, and Christina Koch, plus Canadian Jeremy Hansen. This flight over came years of delays and huge cost overruns, finally putting humans back on a lunar path after Apollo days. It's the debut crewed run for the SLS rocket and Orion spacecraft, designed to get America returning to the moon regularly and building toward a base. There, crowds of about 400,000 lined floor to space coast, cheering wildly as the orange and white beast roared to life. NASA teams erupted in joy too, with launch director Charlie Blackwell Thompson wishing the crew luck, carrying the spirit of the nation and world. Now in orbit, the astronaut star safety checks on the uncrew tested ship before their

1:0210-day loop around the moon, no landing, but testing manual, piloting, and docking. This sets records as the farthest humans from Earth and marks firsts, a woman, person of color, and non-American on such a voyage. All eyes stay glued as they pave the runway for Artemis-3's moon landing in 2028, pushing us closer to Mars and outpacing rivals in. I'm Corey with The Story, that's your Canada News Today update, AI powered, and always on.