NASA's Artemis 1 mission is poised to take a key step toward returning humans to the Moon after a half-century hiatus.
Artemis 2, which is scheduled to launch a few years after that, will have astronauts on board. It, too, will be an orbital mission, very much like, which circled the Moon and came back home. The astronauts will spend a longer time orbiting the Moon and will test everything with a human crew.
, which means using resources at hand like water ice and lunar soil to produce food, fuel, and building materials. NASA doesn't own the Starship but is buying seats to allow astronauts to go to the surface. SpaceX will then use the Starship for other purposes – to transport other payloads, private astronauts, and astronauts from other countries.
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