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NASA debuts new moon rocket, 50 years after Apollo
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English - August 28, 2022 19:56 - 3 minutes - 3.13 MB - ★★★★ - 11 ratingsNews Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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NASA is taking a spectacular step towards sending humans back to the moon, 50 years after the last Apollo mission.
The Artemis I mission, set to liftoff in just over 16 hours time, will attempt to send an empty crew capsule into a far-flung lunar orbit.
If all goes well, astronauts could be strapping in as soon as 2024 for a lap around the moon, with plans to go even beyond to Mars.
Space.com editor Tariq Malik spoke to Kim Hill from the Kennedy Space Centre in Florida.