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On April 1, 2026, NASA launched astronauts on a ten-day round trip that circled the Moon without landing, the first crewed lunar flight in over 50 years.
Artemis II is correct — launched April 1, 2026, it sent astronauts on a roughly ten-day round trip circling the Moon without landing, marking the first crewed lunar flight in over 50 years, with the capsule splashing down safely in the Pacific Ocean afterward.
Artemis I was an earlier, uncrewed test flight that didn't carry astronauts, and Apollo 18 was never actually flown — a planned Apollo mission that was cancelled decades ago — so neither matches this crewed lunar flyby.
Artemis II used the powerful Space Launch System rocket and serves as a critical stepping stone toward Artemis III, the mission intended to actually land astronauts back on the lunar surface for the first time since the Apollo era.
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