With NASA planning to launch four astronauts on Wednesday on its Artemis II mission, the race to return to the Moon is back on。
The current mission will see astronauts aboard the Orion capsule travel around the Moon before returning to Earth in 10 days’ time。
They’ll be testing out the hardware and systems that could soon see Americans standing on the Moon for the first time in more than 50 years in the Artemis IV mission scheduled for 2028。
NASA isn’t ready to land people on the Moon just yet, but that’s the aim for the next five years: to not only get people onto the Moon but establish a lengthy human presence on its surface。
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来源：The Verge
