Artemis launch director Charlie Blackwell-Thompson then addressed the astronauts directly. “This was amazing,” said Sian Proctor, an American scientist who participated in a 2021 space mission and ventured to Florida’s Space Coast, where local authorities said around 400,000 people were watching. (Story continues below)Repeated setbacksThe mission marks a series of historic accomplishments: it will send the first person of color, the first woman and the first non-American on a lunar mission. It is also the inaugural crewed flight of NASA’s new lunar rocket, dubbed the Space Launch System (SLS). The Artemis II rocket lifts off from the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida on April 1, 2026.

Source: Bangkok Post April 02, 2026 14:28 UTC