When NASA’s Space Launch System at Kennedy Space Center in Florida fires its engines for the second time in history, it will be flying because of more than 14,000 Coloradans.
It will carry four astronauts, three Americans and one Canadian, on a 10-day course around the moon in what may be the most consequential NASA mission in more than 50 years.
The mission will be the first crewed mission to our celestial companion since 1972. Artemis, so named as the twin sister of Apollo, is set to take NASA back with the first window to launch opening on Feb. 8…