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NASA's Artemis II mission launched on April 1, 2026, sending four astronauts on the first crewed lunar flyby in over 50 years, with a Trans-Lunar Injection burn scheduled for April 2 to push the Orion spacecraft toward the Moon on a free-return trajectory. The mission, costing more than $4 billion, carries both historic significance and unresolved technical questions — particularly around a heat shield that performed unexpectedly during the uncrewed Artemis I test flight — while broader debates over the Artemis program's cost, schedule slippage, and long-term justification continue to intensify.