Artemis II Mission Prepares for First Human Return to Moon in Over 50 Years

Does going to the moon still matter? – podcast

If all goes to plan, Artemis II, Nasa’s mission to return humans to the moon, will launch this week. The mission will mark the farthest that humans have travelled from Earth, and the first return to the moon in more than 50 years. It will also pave the way for landing on the moon again as soon as 2028. But given the Apollo missions have already achieved that feat, does going back to the moon still matter today? To find out, Madeleine Finlay hears from the Guardian’s science editor, Ian Sample...

By Presented and produced by Madeleine Finlay, with Ian Sample, sound design by Joel Cox; the executive producer was Ellie Bury