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I'm Ben Thomas for the AP News Minute at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida this evening.

4, 3, 2, 1, bluster ignition and liftoff, the crew of Artemis 2 now bound for the moon.

It's a 10-day slingshot mission around the moon, NASA pushing toward a lunar landing in two years.

Meanwhile, Julie Walker reports,

Elon Musk's base exploration company is filing preliminary paperwork to sell shares to the

public. According to two sources, a blockbuster offering that is likely to rank as the

biggest ever and make its founder the world's first trillionaire. A SpaceX IPO promises to be one

of the biggest Wall Street events of the year, with several investment banks lining up to help

raise tens of billions to fund Musk's ambitions to set up a base on the moon and possibly one day

send a man to Mars, Julie Walker, New York. And I'm Ben Thomas.