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By Joey Roulette CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida, April 1 (Reuters) - NASA is set to launch four astronauts as soon as Wednesday evening on a 10-day flight around the moon, marking the most ambitious U.S. space mission in decades and a major step toward returning humans to the lunar surface before China's first crewed landing.
The first flyby images of the Moon captured by NASA's Artemis II astronauts during their historic test flight reveal regions no human has seen before.
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Women outnumber men in NASA's newest astronaut class. And this week, the first woman will orbit the moon
Christina Koch will be the first woman to fly around the moon in the Artemis II launch.
At 6:44 p.m. Eastern time, the crew of NASA’s moon mission Artemis II — three Americans and one Canadian — became the first astronauts in more than half a century to be cut off from the rest of humanity as their spaceship slipped behind the moon,