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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
Abha Shah

This is the exact watch the crew on NASA’s Artemis II is wearing on their mission to the moon

It’s been more than half a century since the world saw a manned space mission to the moon.

All that changed on Wednesday evening (April 1, 2026), when four astronauts blasted off from Florida’s Kennedy Space Centre on NASA’s Artemis II spacecraft to embark on a major lunar voyage designed to pave the way for a landing in 2028.

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