This is Countdown, CNN’s newsletter covering NASA’s first time sending humans to deep space in over 50 years

By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — There is nothing like the excitement of a rocket launch. I’ll never forget the feeling of being at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida for the highly anticipated liftoff of the uncrewed Artemis I mission in 2022. I had reported on space and science news for nearly a decade,