The Passover Seder is the most-observed Jewish ritual in the United States. As millions of people gathered on Wednesday evening to retell the ancient story of the Israelites’ exodus from Egypt, three Americans and a Canadian made their own exodus — from Earth.
The sun was just starting to set behind Cape Canaveral’s skinny strip of land and sea, ushering in the holiday, when Artemis II lifted off. The astronauts’ bodies, buckled to a tube of metal and wire, throttled at about 24,000 miles an hour to begin their 10-day sojourn around the moon. Back on land, kids in spacesuits stared at the sky. Passengers on a Delta flight passing over Florida watched the rocket lift off.
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