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People gather at Cocoa Beach, Florida, to get a glimpse of NASA's Artemis 1 rocket launch to the Moon, just moments before the US space agency scrubbed the test flight of its giant Moon rocket because of a temperature issue with one of the four RS-25 engines. IMAGES
The Artemis program marks the first step in the new era of human exploration. Together with commercial and international partners like JAXA, NASA hopes to establish a sustainable presence on the Moon to launch missions to Mars. Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) and Toyota are also contributing to the programme. MHI will do so through the development of the LUPEX – acronym in English for the Lunar Polar Expedition – and Toyota through the joint development of a manned lunar rover with JAXA. With this "Lunar Cruiser", Toyota hopes to apply the honed technologies used in the extreme conditions of the Moon on Earth.
NASA unveils its Orion spacecraft for the Artemis 2 space mission, at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral in Florida. The mission scheduled for late 2024, will take a crew of four astronauts to the Moon. IMAGES
NASA's Orion space capsule splashes down safely in the Pacific, completing the Artemis-1 mission -- a more than 25-day journey around the Moon with an eye to returning humans there in coming years. IMAGES
NASA launched the most powerful rocket ever built on a journey to the Moon on Wednesday, marking the start of the space agency's new flagship program, Artemis. The 32-story tall Space Launch System (SLS) blasted off from the storied Kennedy Space Center in Florida at 01:47 am (0647 GMT). IMAGES
Thousands of people are marching in Paris against the rising cost of living called by left-wing political parties and backed by hundreds of associations, which are seeking to build on the momentum created by the refinery standoff which began at the end of September. IMAGES