Jo (@bigsharkjo.bsky.social)

Four astronauts and a nation’s starry-eyed ambitions are now on course for a fateful lunar rendezvous. They will not land on the moon. But across 10 days in space, the crew will follow a looping path that slings them well beyond the moon’s far side before it returns them to Earth.

loading . . .

NASA’s Artemis II launches on first crewed moon mission of the 21st century A daring 10-day voyage will take four astronauts on a loop around the moon and set the stage for future forays to the lunar surface https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/nasas-artemis-ii-mission-launches-four-astronauts-to-the-moon/

138