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Elizabeth Howell

Will Artemis 2 launch to the moon in 2024? NASA has a lot of work ahead

Two humans in ornage space suits, without helmets, walk down a gantry way outside during a sunny day.

I'm used to seeing old moon spacecraft surrounded by museum crowds. So it was rather strange in August to not only visit the Artemis 2 lunar spacecraft under construction in Florida, but to speak with its four-astronaut crew standing nearby.

NASA invited a small group of reporters Aug. 8 to see three Orion spacecraft for future Artemis moon missions, including Artemis 2, at the agency's Kennedy Space Center (KSC) in Florida. Artemis 2 aims to circle the moon in late 2024, or perhaps 2025 if recent reported comments from NASA astronaut Randy Bresnik come to be. (Bresnik is assistant to NASA's chief astronaut and is responsible for developing and testing Artemis hardware, his official biography states.)

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