After months of delay and tens of billions of dollars, NASA's Artemis I mission has reached the Moon and will stay there for two weeks before returning to Earth.
After just a few days after its launch, the spaceship has reached its lunar destination and is currently in an elliptical path that will take it back to Earth on December 11th.
The United States' first concrete gesture towards boots on the Moon since the 1970s has been hailed as a game-changing event.
"This is a day that you have been thinking about and dreaming about for a long, long time," Scoville said during the event.
The rocket flew over the landing sites of Apollo 11 and Apollo 12 as it did its first moon landing.
CNBC's Michael Sheetz posted a time-lapse image of the first flyby of Artemis' capsule, and a photo of our natural satellite was taken by Artemis' capsule.
NASA spent a lot of money on its Space Launch Systems rocket, but it hasn't received the same amount of attention as the James Webb Space Telescope.
We've already been to the Moon, so this could be related to the failed initial attempts to launch Artemis.
If you don't count the damage done to the launchpad, NASA says that Artemis "exceededs expectations" and is moving along nicely.
The first ever Indigenous woman in space is about to launch.
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