NASA's Artemis II mission is a key turning point for lunar exploration, moving us from the short-term ‘flags and footprints’ focus of the 1960s to a framework for long-term sustainability. Apollo missions landed on the Moon using the Saturn V rocket and made short-term landings,

NASA's Artemis 2 mission will send four astronauts on a 10-day journey around the moon, the first crewed mission toward the moon in over 50 years.

"The human eye can pick out a tremendous amount of detail," Jacob Bleacher, NASA's chief exploration scientist, said last year during a news conference.