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A look back at how the Artemis II crew prepared for a historic moon mission

A four-astronaut crew is going on the first mission to send humans around the moon in more than 50 years. NPR's Scott Detrow visited with the crew while they were still training in Houston.

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Ashley Brown is a senior editor for All Things Considered.
Scott Detrow is a White House correspondent for NPR and co-hosts the NPR Politics Podcast.
Michael Levitt
Michael Levitt is a news assistant for All Things Considered who is based in Atlanta, Georgia. He graduated from UCLA with a B.A. in Political Science. Before coming to NPR, Levitt worked in the solar energy industry and for the National Endowment for Democracy in Washington, D.C. He has also travelled extensively in the Middle East and speaks Arabic.
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