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9:46:36Now PlayingWatch live coverage as NASA launches the Artemis II rocket carrying four astronauts on a 10-day journey taking them around Earth and the moon. NASA astronauts Reid Wiseman, Christina Koch and Victor Glover and Canadian astronaut Jeremy Hansen will be the first people to launch toward the moon since the Apollo 17 mission in 1972.
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