From Global News.

NASA’s Artemis II astronauts are blazing toward the moon. Translunar ignition came 25 hours after liftoff, putting the three Americans and one Canadian on course for a lunar fly-around early next week. 

"Ladies and gentleman, I am so, so excited to be able to tell you that for the first time since 1972 during Apollo 17, human beings have left Earth orbit," NASA’s Lori Glaze said at a news conference on Thursday.

The astronauts’ Orion capsule has left Earth orbit and is headed for the moon, nearly 250,000 miles away. 

It’s the first engine firing for a moon crew since Apollo 17 set out on that era’s final moonshot in 1972. 

NASA had the Artemis II crew stick close to home for a day to test their capsule’s life-support systems before clearing them for lunar departure.

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