All systems go for Artemis 1 mission to Moon

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WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) – Fifty years after the last Apollo mission, the Artemis program is poised to take up the baton of lunar exploration with a test launch on Monday of NASA’s most powerful rocket ever. The goal is to return humans to the Moon for the first time since the last Apollo mission in 1972 — and eventually to Mars. The 322-foot (98-meter) Space Launch System (SLS) rocket is scheduled to blast off […]