Artemis II Moves to Launch Pad for April Moon Flyby
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NASA has begun rolling the Space Launch System and Orion back to Launch Pad 39B at Kennedy Space Center for final preparations toward an early-April launch window for Artemis II, a roughly 10-day crewed lunar flyby. After fixes for a helium-flow issue and a liquid-hydrogen leak, the team is aiming to complete tests before liftoff; the crew is quarantined in Houston. If all goes well, Artemis II would be the first crewed lunar mission since the Apollo era.
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