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Biden hosts four NASA astronauts, the first crew aiming to fly around the moon in a half-century

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The four astronauts assigned to fly around the moon for the first time in 50 years met with President Joe Biden on Thursday at the White House, where he showed off an moon rock on display in the Oval Office that was collected in the Apollo era.

The Artemis II crew — three and one Canadian — said the president was making good on a

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