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NASA's Artemis II lunar flyby mission, with the next-generation moon rocket, the Space Launch System (SLS) rocket and the Orion crew capsule, sits on Pad 39B ahead of the launch of the Artemis II mission at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida, U.S., March 31, 2026.
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Nasa says technical issue with Moon mission resolved as astronauts sealed into spacecraft

An earlier communications issue with an onboard safety mechanism has been fixed, Nasa says, and they are now "go for launch".

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