"Preparations for the first human spaceflight to the Moon in more than 50 years took a big step forward this weekend with the rollout of the Artemis II rocket to its launch pad. The rocket reached a top speed of just 1 mph on the four-mile, 12-hour journey from the Vehicle Assembly Building to Launch Complex 39B at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. At the end of its nearly 10-day tour through cislunar space, the Orion capsule on top of the rocket will exceed 25,000 mph as it plunges into the atmosphere to bring its four-person crew back to Earth."
""This is the start of a very long journey," said NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman. "We ended our last human exploration of the moon on Apollo 17." The Artemis II mission will set several notable human spaceflight records. Astronauts Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, Christina Koch, and Jeremy Hansen will travel farther from Earth than any human in history. They won't land. That distinction will fall to the next mission in line in NASA's Artemis program."
Artemis II rolled out from the Vehicle Assembly Building to Launch Complex 39B, traveling four miles at about 1 mph over 12 hours. The Orion capsule atop the Space Launch System will exceed 25,000 mph during atmospheric reentry after a nearly 10-day cislunar mission. The crew—Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, Christina Koch, and Jeremy Hansen—will travel farther from Earth than any humans in history without landing. The mission will send the crew more than 4,000 miles beyond the Moon's far side, set up a high-speed reentry record, and mark firsts for Koch and Hansen.
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