Orion's Moon Mission: New Record & Deep-Space Call

0:00NASA's Orion spacecraft just fired its main engine in space late Thursday, nailing the key trans-looner injection burn to send the four-member Artemis. Two crew hurtling toward a lunar flyby on their 10-day mission. This comes right after their Wednesday evening launch from Kennedy Space Center in Florida, marking a huge step after years of development and billions of dollars poured into NASA's moon program. The mission gnaws to the Apollo era by naming it after Artemis, Apollo's twin sister, and it's setting the stage for future moon landings with crews, planning to touch down by 2028 to build a lunar base. Crew Commander Reed Wiseman leads the team with pilot Victor Glover, mission specialist Christina Koch, and Canadian astronaut Jeremy Hanson, there. Poised to shatter the record for farthest humans have gone from Earth, topping Apollo 13 from 1970. Now outbound, the run tests, snap lunar photos during the close pass, and even link up for NASA's first deep space call with the International.

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