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NASA prepares to send four Artemis II astronauts on a lunar flyby

NASA is preparing to launch four people on a trip around the moon and back. It's the first time in more than a half-century humans are set to venture around the moon.

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Nell Greenfieldboyce is a NPR science correspondent.

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