NASA is determined to make huge progress in its moon exploration this year. The U.S. space agency reportedly plans to send astronauts for a lunar flyby mission.
NASA is preparing to undertake its most intricate and dangerous project in many years with the launch of Artemis II in November, which will send four humans into a lunar orbit. More than half a century has passed before anyone has journeyed deeper into the solar system than the lunar fly-by mission.
Since the space race of the 20th century, during the Cold War, no human has ventured beyond the region of space beyond Earth's immediate orbit, making it a historic achievement.
This expedition will travel around the moon, passing near its surface but never setting foot on it. It will expand upon NASA's Space Launch System rocket and Orion spacecraft's successful unmanned test flight in late 2022.
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