Apollo, Artemis II
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Keith Wright from Dorset, worked on Apollo 11 - the first mission to land astronauts on the Moon.
Like Apollo 8 in 1968, NASA's Artemis 2 mission from Florida will send a crew of astronauts around the moon and back without landing.
Twelve astronauts walked on the Moon during NASA's Apollo missions from 1969 to 1972.
On May 25 1961, before a joint session of Congress, President John F. Kennedy committed the US to the goal, before the decade was out, of landing a man on the Moon and returning him safely to the Earth.