🚀🌛 Four astronauts – 3 Americans and 1 Canadian – blasted off Wednesday on NASA’s Artemis II, humanity’s first lunar flight in over 50 years.
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Artemis II launches historic flyby lunar mission
France 24
April 02, 2026
09:03 GMT
🚀🌛 Four astronauts – 3 Americans and 1 Canadian – blasted off Wednesday on NASA’s Artemis II, humanity’s first lunar flight in over 50 years.
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🚀🌛 Four astronauts – 3 Americans and 1 Canadian – blasted off Wednesday on NASA’s Artemis II, humanity’s first lunar flight in over 50 years.
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