NASA gives Artemis II mission update
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Astronauts are expected to hit a major milestone in the Artemis II mission with a historic flyby of the moon on Monday afternoon.
Integrity spacecraft will need to hit a precise point in Earth's atmosphere to cap strain on its heat shield.
On Wednesday, the crew of NASA's Artemis II could blast off on a mission around the moon and back. No astronaut has ventured out to the moon since the 1970s.
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Artemis II live tracker, day 5: Follow NASA's mission to the moon
The Artemis II astronauts and Orion spacecraft are more than two-thirds of the distance to the moon's lunar surface, NASA said. Track the astronauts and mission live.
NASA's Artemis II crew has reached Day 8 of their moon mission, and they'll test Orion's manual controls while preparing for return to Earth.