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Engines lit.
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4, 3, 2, 1. Booster ignition and lift off. The crew of Artemis 2 now bound for the moon. Humanity. Humanity's next great voyage begins. Good. Roll pitch.
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Roger. Roll pitch. Houston now controlling the flight of integrity on the Artemis II mission around the
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boat just after 11pm on Wednesday night. That was the sound of NASA's Artemis 2 mission taking off from the Florida coast. Four astronauts on a huge rocket heading at great speed to space. Their final destination is the moon. They're not going to land there, but they're going to go around the dark side of the moon. And when they make it there, these pioneers will be the humans who have traveled furthest from Earth. Sometimes I'm a little bit skeptical of space stories, but everyone is united on this one. That it's ambitious, it's awe inspiring and also it's very accessible because so much of this mission you can tune it into in real time. And that's what we will be focusing on in this episode of Newscast. Now, simultaneously, the countdown in Florida. There was the countdown to Donald Trump's big address to the American people, which he did about 2 o' clock on Thursday morning, UK time. Now, there's a lot of build up to this speech, but actually when I then watched it online, when I woke up this morning, it sort of almost felt like him reading out his own social media posts. A lot of the stuff he's been saying in the last few days, he just put into a big speech to the American people. He talked about the military action against Iran winding down in the next two or three weeks, although he said he would be striking Iran even harder over the next few days. And he heaped the pressure on other countries to reopen the Strait of Hormuz, basically saying it was not an American problem. And we've seen some action on that on Thursday because Yvette Cooper, the British Foreign Secretary, has been hosting a group of more than 30 countries from around the world having a virtual meeting about how they could create sort of A new coalition of the willing which could be keeping that crucial waterway open for the benefit of the world economy. So I feel with the U. S. Israel war against Iran, we're still in the same pattern we were in before Trump did his big address to the nation. Now back to space, which is the focus of this episode of newscast, newscast,
