"Characterized as a challenge high in risk, NASA's Artemis I flight test opens   
   a    
   new era in human space exploration, one intended to provide global dividends    
   across the science, economic and global leadership spectrums, agency    
   leaders said as the mission's two-day launch countdown got underway.   
      
   Liftoff of the 322-ft. Space Launch System (SLS) rocket to send an uncrewed    
   Orion capsule on a 42-day mission around the Moon and back—designed to    
   assess the hardware and operations for human missions to follow—is set for    
   April 29 at  8:33 a.m. EDT at the opening of a 2-hr. launch window, with   
   backup    
   opportunities on Sept. 2 and 5.   
      
   Officially, the agency is targeting a late-2025 launch for Artemis III, which   
   is    
   expected to become the first post-Apollo mission to deliver astronauts to the    
   surface of the Moon, with landing planned for the unexplored south pole.   
      
   Follow-on efforts to establish a sustained lunar presence with international    
   and commercial partners are aiming to vault humanity to Mars in the late    
   2030s or early 2040s, according to NASA Administrator Bill Nelson."   
      
   See:   
      
   https://aviationweek.com/defense-space/space-focus/artemis-i-ope   
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