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Artemis II completes the first translunar injection since 1972

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Artemis II completed NASA's first translunar injection since Apollo in 1972, while Blue Origin demonstrated extracting oxygen, iron, aluminium and construction materials from lunar regolith and SpaceX boosted its listing target above $2 trillion.

Reported metric: $2T

Reporting date: 2026-04-03 (not necessarily the event date)

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Welcome to April 3, 2026 (theinnermostloop.substack.com)

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Welcome to April 3, 2026

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Artemis II launches and Outlook fails seven hours in

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Artemis II completes the first translunar injection since 1972
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Reporting date: 2026-04-03
KB permalink: https://nicholsn.github.io/innermost-loop-kb/developments/2026-04-03-first-translunar-injection-since-apollo
Claim: Artemis II completed NASA's first translunar injection since Apollo in 1972, while Blue Origin demonstrated extracting oxygen, iron, aluminium and construction materials from lunar regolith and SpaceX boosted its listing target above $2 trillion.
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- Welcome to April 3, 2026 — https://theinnermostloop.substack.com/p/welcome-to-april-3-2026
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