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The Orion spacecraft successfully launched, beginning its journey to explore the Moon

After many months of delay, SLS - the most powerful rocket humanity has ever built has left the launch pad in Florida, USA, carrying the Orion spacecraft as part of the Artemis I mission of the Artemis Program to bring humans to the Moon again. 2025 and establish its first permanent presence here in the United States.

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This giant booster rocket took off at 1:47 a.m. on November 16 from Launch Pad 39B at the Kennedy Space Center of the US Aerospace Agency (NASA) in Florida thanks to a strong thrust of up to 3. 9 million kg. The spacecraft will make a 30-day, 2.1 million km journey to the Moon and back.

Close-up of NASA's spacecraft bringing people back to the Moon

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Update 17 November 2023

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