In a crucial maneuver,  NASA's Artemis II astronauts fired up their spacecraft's engine, breaking away from the Earth's  orbit on Thursday and blazing towards the Moon . The key thruster firing or the translunar injection burn puts four astronauts — three Americans and a Canadian — on the path to the first crewed lunar flyby in over half-a-century since the Apollo 17 mission in 1972. The mission control in Houston confirmed a "good burn." The hours after Artemis II's launch The burn was reported 25 hours after the massive orange-and-white Space Launch System (SLS) rocket carrying the Orion capsule lifted off from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. "We ‌are getting just a beautiful ⁠view ⁠of the dark side of the Earth lit by the moon right now. Phenomenal," Canadian astronaut Jeremy Hansen informed mission control about 10 minutes after the thruster firing. Hansen said that he and his crewmates were glued to the capsule's windows as they left Earth.…