Here’s how NASA wants to send humans back to the moon 04:10
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Kennedy Space Center, Florida (CNN)Before landing the first humans on Mars, NASA wants to return to the lunar surface — but in a way that we’ve never explored the moon before.
When the uncrewed Artemis I mission launches on Monday, August 29, it’s just the first step toward the future of space exploration.
The last crewed landing on the moon, Apollo 17, was nearly 50 years ago. The final Apollo mission’s record for the longest crewed deep space flight still stands: 12.5 days.
Through the Artemis program, which aims to land humans at the unexplored lunar south pole and eventually on Mars, astronauts will go on long-duration deep space missions that test all of the bounds of exploration.
