For the first time in more than 50 years, the U.S. is sending astronauts back toward the moon.

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Incredible stuff. Just moments ago, NASA launched Artemis 2 from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida,

sending a crew of four astronauts on a 10-day voyage around the moon and back to Earth.

If all goes as planned, they'll travel farther into deep space than any humans before them.

The flight marks a key step in the broader Artemis program, which aims to put humans back

on our moon surface by 2028.

And joining me now from the Space Center in Florida is our science correspondent, Miles O'Brien.

So Miles, take us into that moment.

What was it like to see lift off there?

Just tell us what you saw and heard around you.

Well, Amna, I've covered probably 40 shuttle launches in my career, and nothing was like this.

This was a much more powerful rocket, a rocket that is on its way to another celestial

body, four people on board, lifted off the planet by a orchestra, a symphony of work on the part

of a team here that put it all together. There were some glitches in the countdown, which caused some

concern. But in the end, they worked them all out, and they had a very clean ride to space. They're

now in space and beginning the process of checking out this vehicle on a test flight that

will last nine days and take them around the moon. So, Miles, you mentioned a couple of glitches

there. I know folks who are watching may have seen some delays. What was going on there? What should we know? You know, and it's minor stuff. There was problems with some batteries, some battery indications. There was a loss of telemetry briefly. There was concern about the launch termination system. All of it got worked it out. I will say this, there's been a lot of

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