Artemis II astronauts will use a $23 million toilet in space
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Think of it like a long family trip, with everyone packed into an minivan along with all of your stuff — except that you're hitting the road at 28,000 km/h and there are no pit stops for nearly 10 days.
The Artemis II mission has left Earth orbit and is headed to a loop around the moon.
The Artemis 2 launch will see four astronauts on a ten-day mission that will take them further into space than ever before as part of a wider NASA plan to send humans to Mars
NASA's Artemis II mission will be the first time humans fly inside the Orion spacecraft. Astronauts will test its systems and learn to live in the small space.
NASA released the crew’s first downlinked images Friday, 1 1/2 days into the first astronaut moonshot in more than half a century.