Artemis 2 Mission Launches for Trip Around the Moon
David Dickinson
NASA’s Artemis 2 mission departs, marking a return for humans to cis-lunar space.
They’re on their way. After more than a decade’s worth of planning, delays, and revisions, the boosters on NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS) Block 1 rocket roared to life and lifted off from pad LC-39B in Florida on Wednesday, April 1st, at 6:35 p.m. EDT / 10:35 Universal Time, 11 minutes into the two hour launch window. The mission will send the Artemis 2 crew on a path around the Moon.
The launch was delayed from.