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NASA launches first crewed lunar mission in half a century

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By Joey Roulette
CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida, April 1 (Reuters) – Four astronauts blasted off from Florida on Wednesday on NASA’s Artemis II mission, a high‑stakes 10-day trip around the moon that marks the United States’ boldest step yet toward returning humans to the lunar surface this decade before China’s first crewed landing.

(Reporting by Joey Roulette; Editing by Jamie Freed)

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