After the successful liftoff yesterday, the plan was for the crew to spend the day circling the earth twice and testing out the spacecraft to make certain everything was working properly for the moon mission. If there had been a serious problem, the mission to the moon could have been aborted. But as of now it looks like everything is go for what NASA calls the translunar injection burn. That’s the firing of the spacecraft’s engine to direct it out of earth orbit toward the moon.
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