The Artemis II mission is the first time humans have headed to the moon since 1972. That year also marked the debut of The Godfather and the Egg McMuffin.

The engine firing provided a slingshot-like boost to the Orion capsule, speeding it up to some 25,000 mph, the velocity needed to break free of Earth's gravitational clasp for a trek to the moon.

The Artemis 2 mission is due to send astronauts on a test mission to the moon and back during the "opening act" of a new age of discovery.

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It has been 50 years since humans last walked the lunar surface, and NASA’s efforts to get back there will take place in stages.

NASA launched its most powerful rocket yet, the SLS, to send the crewed Artemis II mission to the moon, the first in more than five decades.

The 10-day mission will take humans further into space than ever before, and it is designed to test many of the technologies that Nasa will use for Artemis IV, scheduled to place astronauts on the Moon in 2028. That would be for the first time since the last Apollo landing in 1972.

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