Launch will return US to the moon

NASA has successfully launched its unmanned spacecraft, called Artemis, for a mission to explore the moon. The World’s host Marco Werman interviews Brad Jolliff, the director of the McDonnell Center for the Space Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis, about the mission and international cooperation in space.

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