NASA is taking astronauts back to the moon this February for the first crewed mission since 1972!
Well, around the moon, certainly, rather than on it! Nasa’s mega rocket has been moved to the launch pad in Cape Canaveral, Florida, as the final preparations get underway for the first crewed mission to the Moon in more than 50 years.
Many years in the making, final testing is now underway for the Artemis II mission. The crew – Nasa’s Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover and Christina Koch and Canadian astronaut Jeremy Hansen – were at the Kennedy Space Center watching the rocket as it was moved.
In just a few weeks, the four astronauts will be strapped into a spacecraft, perched on the top of the rocket, ready to blast off to the Moon and the mission could take humans further out into space than ever before.
You can be sure that President Trump will be celebrating the launch, heralding a new era of space travel for the US and representing a much needed distraction from his other recent exploits.
The mission has faced several years of delays but NASA has not compromised on safety and sees this endeavour as a vital step of soon putting humans on the moon with an established base before the decade is out.
