For the first time in more than 50 years, humans are on the verge of returning to the moon. The Artemis II mission is preparing to launch as soon as March 6 to bring four astronauts in a loop around the moon, marking the closest anyone has been to our natural satellite since the Apollo 17 astronauts returned to Earth in 1972.
“For so long we’ve heard, ‘We’re going back to the moon,’” says planetary scientist Marie Henderson at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md. Now, this generation of lunar scientists gets to be part of the action.
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