Fifty years after the last Apollo mission, NASA is again aiming for the moon. The Artemis I mission will blast off Monday morning from Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida.
to land on the moon.
NASA workers have spent the past several days staging the massive rocket on its pad and preparing it for launch. The mission will take 42 days, three hours and 20 minutes to complete, . The Orion spacecraft is set for splashdown near Baja, California, after it returns from orbiting the moon on Oct. 10. NASA Artemis I launch schedule
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