Ankur Desai

But I think they're being a bit optimistic about that.

So are we likely to see more history making in the coming years?

You said it could take longer than 2028.

Why is that?

Well, it's incredibly ambitious.

For one thing, the lunar landers have not yet been built.

They're supposed to be tested next year by docking in Earth orbit to see if they can dock.

The key problem is that these lunar landers are not the lunar landers I remember seeing when I was a boy, which was just basically a small van designed to carry two astronauts down to the

lunar surface and back.

These are gigantic vehicles that have been designed to carry infrastructure because this time NASA plans to stay on the moon, take stuff up there, build things.

Now these landers need refuelling and they'll need to be refuelled in space.

It's hard enough refuelling them on the ground.

The Artemis 2 mission was cancelled twice because they couldn't get the refuelling right.

Just imagine how hard it's going to be in space.

So once they've overcome that problem, then they've got to test the lunar lander.

So an awful lot to do in just two years.

However, one must say that they have achieved a near flawless mission with Artemis II.

So who knows?

Maybe we will see landing on the moon in 2028.

Pallab, it's been an incredible 10 days for the four astronauts involved.