NASA’s Artemis II crew got off to a great start on Wednesday when their Orion spacecraft reached Earth orbit following a spectacular launch from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
After a day checking the spacecraft’s systems, NASA astronauts Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, and Christina Koch, together with CSA (Canadian Space Agency) astronaut Jeremy Hansen, have just executed a critical burn that sets them on course for a close encounter with the moon some 250,000 miles away — the first since Apollo 17 in 1972. It’s also the first-ever lunar mission with a woman, a person of color, and a non‑U.S. astronaut as part of the crew.
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The Orion ignited its main engine shortly before 8 p.m. ET. on Thursday in a burn lasting 5 minutes and 50 seconds. NASA described it as “a good burn” as the spacecraft moved away from Earth and toward
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