Moon rocket and weather are on NASA’s side for the first astronaut launch in decades

Everything seems to be going NASA’s way as the countdown proceeds toward a Wednesday launch of astronauts’ first trip to the moon in more than half a century. Officials said Tuesday that the rocket is doing well on its Florida pad and the weather looks promising. The four astronauts assigned to the Artemis II mission will become the first lunar visitors since Apollo 17 in 1972. They’ll zip around the moon without landing or even orbiting and come straight back. The launch team will begin fueling the 32-story rocket Wednesday morning for an evening send-off.

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