Artemis II successfully LEAVES Earth’s orbit and picks up SPEED on its historic journey to the Moon

The Artemis II spacecraft had completed the engine burn and the spacecraft had left Earth's orbit, as NASA shares a message from Canadian astronaut Jeremy Hansen onboard. The four astronauts inside the Orion capsule are on humanity's first Moon mission in more than five decades. Nasa deputy associate administrator Lori Glaze told a news conference: “Ladies and gentlemen, I am so, so excited to be able to tell you that for the first time since 1972 during Apollo 17, human beings have left Earth orbit.” She said the engine firing had gone without a hitch. The Mirror Facebook: http://facebook.com/dailymirror The Mirror IG: http://instagram.com/dailymirror The Mirror TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@dailymirror The Mirror Twitter: http://twitter.com/DailyMirror The Mirror Homepage: https://www.mirror.co.uk Sign up for our newsletters: https://www.mirror.co.uk/email #space #nasa #artemisii