... left something precious on the Moon ...
The Artemis 2 launch date is tentatively set for November 2024, but that depends on the readiness of a few items.
Artemis 2 is the second scheduled flight of the Artemis program and the first crewed Artemis mission.
Artemis 2 will include three astronauts from NASA and one from the Canadian Space Agency.
NASA commander Reid Wiseman, NASA pilot Victor Glover, NASA mission specialist Christina Koch and CSA mission specialist Jeremy Hansen will fly around the moon before returning to Earth.
The roughly 10-day-long mission is tentatively scheduled to launch in November 2024.
The South Pole of the Moon is the coolest place to be.
On Wednesday, the Indian Space Research Organisation successfully landed its Chandrayaan-3 probe near the moon's south pole. It was the first time India had landed a spacecraft on the moon, and the first time any country had successfully landed at the coveted moon's south pole.
Many have tried including, Japan, Israel, and most recently Russia, whose Luna-25 spacecraft crashed onto the surface just days before India's successful landing.
NASA is preparing its ARTEMIS mission to return to the moon. Luxembourg and Saudi Arabia have also set their sites on moon missions.
But why exactly are we racing to the moon again ?
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