Solar Flare Blasts Earth Before Artemis II Launch: NASA Unfazed

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Picture this: the sun belches out a massive X1.4 solar flare on March 30, just as NASA flips the switch on countdown clocks for Artemis II—the first crewed trip to lunar orbit since Apollo 17 back in 1972. The radiation storm hits Earth, raising eyebrows about risks to the four astronauts strapped into the Orion capsule for a 10-day, 685,000-mile joyride around the moon and back. Fears of fried electronics or radiation exposure spike, but NASA shuts it down fast: no sweat, launch...