From Global News.

NASA is expected to hold a news conference Thursday evening on its hihgly-anticipated Artemis II mission after a translunar injection burn — a key moment in which the Orion spacecraft kicks its crew on a path to the moon.

NASA’s first crewed lunar space flight in over five decades blasted off Wednesday evening, officially launching the historic Artemis II mission.

Four astronauts, including the Canadian Jeremy Hansen, lifted off from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida at 6:35 p.m., shortly after the mission’s two-hour launch window opened.

Artemis II is a key early step in the flagship U.S. moon program, which is targeting its first crewed landing on the lunar surface in 2028 with the Artemis IV mission. NASA is pressed to achieve that lunar landing — its first since the final Apollo mission in 1972 — as China expands its own lunar program with a planned astronaut landing as soon as 2030.

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