JOHNSON SPACE CENTER — NASA officials on Tuesday morning said the Artemis II mission that will see four astronauts orbit the moon might launch as early as February 2026, as long as all systems and the lunar body align.

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At NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston, officials o

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