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Boeing's biggest role in Project Artemis could soon be obsolete.
NASA's Artemis II astronauts launched Wednesday, April 1, from Kennedy Space Center in Florida, sending America back to the moon for first time since 1972.
NASA intends to send a lot of people to the moon-and to Mars-in the coming decade.
NASA is counting down the hours before the first trip around the moon by astronauts since 1972. The mission of Artemis two begins with a ride to space aboard a rocket made here in Alabama. Some of the engineers who made the Apollo lunar missions possible are still in the Huntsville area and NASA knows it.
The mission will send four astronauts aboard the agency’s powerful Space Launch System rocket on a roughly 10‑day journey.
If the pending Artemis II mission is successful, it will not just send Americans around the moon and back for the first time in more than half a century—it will send them further than any human being has traveled into space.
What time is the rocket launch in Cape Canaveral? ULA Atlas V may be seen across most of Florida after liftoff. Did your city make the visibility map?