Astronaut training for Nasa’s moon mission
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The Artemis II astronauts are on their way to the Moon after making a successful six-minute burn to take them out of the Earth’s atmosphere. Nasa’s live feed from a camera mounted outside Orion showed the Earth moving further away and the Sun shining in the distance as the capsule flew around 100 miles over the surface.