After 54 years, astronauts are going back to the moon

NASA's Artemis II is poised for the first lunar mission since 1972—with much more to come.

4 astronauts will soon take an unprecedented path to the moon. But why aren’t they landing?

NASA’s upcoming Artemis II flight will be the first crewed lunar mission in over 50 years, but it will not land on the moon. Here’s why.
York Dispatch

Artemis II crew to have unique view as craft flies past the moon

What’s different about this 10-day test flight is not only that it returns astronauts to the vicinity of the moon for the first time in more than 50 years but it will give those astronauts a unique vantage point of Earth’s moon.
NBC Bay Area

2026 will be the year NASA astronauts fly around the moon again — if all goes to plan

If all goes according to NASA’s plans, 2026 will finally be the year that astronauts once again launch to the moon. In a matter of months, four astronauts are poised to fly around the moon on a roughly 10-day mission — the closest humans will have ...

Fact Check: Claim that Earth is getting temporary 'second moon' stretches the truth

The object dubbed Earth's "second moon" is actually a quasi-satellite that's accompanied the planet since 1957 — not a true moon.