When you look up at the Moon tonight, you might wonder about humanity's next steps there. NASA's Artemis II mission is about to take us closer to that future than we've been in decades, but it's not quite what you might expect.
Artemis II is trending because it's the next major step in NASA's ambitious plan to return humans to the Moon.
Following the uncrewed Artemis I mission in 2022, Artemis II will be the first crewed test flight of the Orion spacecraft and the Space Launch System (SLS) rocket, paving the way for future lunar landings.