NASA launches first crewed lunar mission in half a century

CAPE ​CANAVERAL, Florida (Reuters) -- Four astronauts blasted off from Florida on Wednesday on NASA's Artemis II mission, a high-stakes 10-day trip around the moon that marks the United States' boldest step yet toward returning humans to the lunar surface this decade before China's first crewed landing. NASA's Space Launch System rocket, topped with its Orion crew capsule, roared to life just before sunset at the agency's Kennedy Space Center to lift its first crew of three US astronauts and a C