Anyone watching the Artemis II launch?
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Before taking his last steps on the moon, NASA astronaut Gene Cernan made sure to scratch his young daughter's initials into the lunar dust.
He had some parting thoughts for the rest of humanity, too.
"We leave as we came and, God willing, as we shall return, with peace and hope for all mankind," the Apollo 17 commander said before departing for Earth.
That was December 1972. Now, more than half a century later, NASA may be about to fulfill Cernan's wishes.
As early as Wednesday at 6:24 p.m., an Orion capsule seated atop a 322-foot rocket will blast off from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. If all goes according to plan, the capsule will carry four astronauts around the moon and back — sending humans the farthest they've ever been from our home planet. NASA's live stream of the launch began at 12:50 p.m
www.npr.org/2026/04/01/nx-s1-5768254/nasa-astronauts-about-to-launch-moon-artemis-ii
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