Almost home
The now-concluded Artemis 1 mission sets the stage for Artemis 2, in which three NASA astronauts and one Canadian astronaut will perform a similar trek around the Moon.
“With Orion safely returned to Earth we can begin to see our next mission on the horizon which will fly crew to the Moon for the first time as a part of the next era of exploration,” Jim Free, NASA associate administrator for the Exploration Systems Development Mission Directorate, said in a statement. “This begins our path to a regular cadence of missions and a sustained human presence at the Moon for scientific discovery and to prepare for human missions to Mars.”
