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Josh Dinner

NASA's Artemis 2 Orion spacecraft fuels up and moves closer to launch

A white conical craft is carted through an open factory door.

The Orion spacecraft flying humanity's next crewed mission to the moon has completed propellant loading and is headed to the next phase of launch preparations.

Teams at NASA's Kennedy Space Center (KSC), in Florida, moved the newly-fueled Orion crew capsule from the Multi-Payload Processing Facility (MPPF) to the Launch Abort System Facility (LASF), where it will be outfitted with its emergency escape system. The move marks a major milestone in preparing the spacecraft for the first crewed flight of NASA's Artemis program, Artemis 2, which will send four astronauts on a 10-day mission around the moon and back.

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