From outdated tech to funding hurdles, here’s why astronauts haven’t landed on the moon in over five decades

As humanity blasts off into a new space race, we need a model of exploration that emphasizes stewardship of other worlds, not exploitation.

NASA has created the Artemis Real-time Orbit Website (AROW), where people can track the Orion spacecraft in real time. Click here to see where the spacecraft and the Artemis II astronauts are. As of 9:45 a.m., Orion was nearly 43,000 miles from Earth and 226,000 miles from the moon. The spacecraft was traveling at 2,100 mph.

NASA’s Artemis II mission is set to launch this week, which could bring humanity close to the moon for the first time since 1972. It’s a mission that’s over twenty years in the making – and even though it’s not the first venture out to the moon,

Speaking from space, the four-member Artemis II crew described their elation after a critical trans-lunar burn sent them beyond Earth’s orbit toward the Moon, the first such jou

The crew, three Americans and a Canadian, are the first humans to travel to the moon in more than 50 years. They will not land on the surface, but the mission will pave the way for future visits.