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A Chinese Long March-2F carrier rocket lifts off.
Artemis II ventured farther into space than any manned craft had gone before. Human eyes saw the far side of the moon for the first time in more than 50 years. The U.S. seemed to have captured an early lead in the new lunar race with China.
Except it didn’t. For all its pageantry, Artemis II masked an uneasy truth: Washington is trailing Beijing.