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Artemis 2 astronauts arrive at KSC

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WASHINGTON — The four Artemis 2 astronauts arrived in Florida March 27 for final preparations ahead of a launch still scheduled as soon as April 1. The four Artemis 2 astronauts — Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, Christina Koch and Jeremy Hansen — flew from Ellington Field in Houston to the Kennedy Space Center in Florida on NASA T-38 jets. They were accompanied by the two backups for the mission, And...
The Artemis 2 mission is part of NASA's broader Artemis program aiming to return humans to the Moon by 2024 and establish sustainable human presence on and around the Moon by 2028. The mission is significant because it will be the first crewed flight test for the Space Launch System (SLS) rocket and Orion spacecraft, a critical step towards NASA's long-term lunar goals. The delay in the launch of Artemis 3 from its original planned date, coupled with the changes in later aspects of the Artemis p...