NASA's CAPSTONE satellite breaks from Earth's orbit and heads toward the Moon
that NASA has targeted a launch window of between August 23rd and September 6th for the Artemis 1 mission. It will send an uncrewed module around the Moon to assess how the journey might affect the human body.
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