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  1. Photo: NASA / Public domain

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  2. Photo: Shujianyang / CC BY-SA 4.0

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  3. Artemis III

    A crewed rehearsal for the Moon, flown in Earth orbit

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    Artemis III is NASA's planned 14-day crewed flight in low Earth orbit, set for summer 2027, in which an Orion crew of four will dock with test versions of the Blue Origin and SpaceX lunar landers. It replaced the original plan to land on the Moon, and NASA now aims to put astronauts on the surface with Artemis IV in 2028.

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  4. Photo: Steve Jurvetson from Los Altos, USA / CC BY 2.0

    Starship Flight 12

    The first Starship V3 launch from Pad 2

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    Starship Flight 12 was the first flight of the Starship version 3 vehicle, Booster 19 and Ship 39, from the new Pad 2 at Starbase, on 22 May 2026. The ship lost one vacuum engine on ascent but reached space and deployed its payloads, and the booster shut down early on its boostback burn.

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  5. Photo: NASA / Steven Seipel / Public domain (US government work)

    Artemis I

    The uncrewed flight that tested Orion and SLS

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    Artemis I launched the Space Launch System and the uncrewed Orion spacecraft on 16 November 2022, the first flight of NASA's Artemis programme. Orion flew around the Moon on a long route and splashed down in the Pacific on 11 December 2022.

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  6. Falcon Heavy Test Flight

    Three cores, 27 engines and a Roadster

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    On 6 February 2018 SpaceX launched Falcon Heavy for the first time from Launch Complex 39A at Kennedy Space Center, carrying a Tesla Roadster instead of a customer satellite. Both side boosters landed side by side at Cape Canaveral, and the Roadster went into an orbit around the Sun that crosses the orbit of Mars.

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