Factoid - Wednesday, April 1, 2026
A group of four astronauts are scheduled to launch from NASA's Kennedy Space Center this evening at 6:24 PM ET. The mission, named "Artemis II," will send the astronauts on a 10-day journey around the moon and back, marking the first time humans have left Earth's orbit since the final Apollo mission in 1972, according to Reuters. The Artemis II mission will take the crew nearly 252,000miles into space, besting the previous record of roughly 248,000 miles set by the three-man crew of Apollo 13.
Posted on Wednesday, April 1, 2026 @ 9:56 AM

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