Bernard O'Shea

Artemis 3 doesn't go into deep space.

They'll be doing a docking test in low Earth orbit, LEO.

That's to make sure that everything's working.

For the next one, which is Artemis 4, which is targeted for 2028,

And that'll be the programme's first crewed lunar landing and the first since Apollo 17 in 1972.

So that's to happen in 2028.

So there are no lunar missions for 50 years and then it's a bit like Dublin Bus.

You get three of them in quick succession, 2026, 2027, 2028.

One thing I noticed in looking at all the footage

from NASA, and it is spectacular, the footage and the images and the audio and all that sort of thing, is the number of women who are in NASA.

I remember all those

sort of news clips that you would have seen back in the 60s and 70s.

Pathé news.

That it was just loads of men in white shirts and black ties.

Now, it was in black and white.

The ties may have been different colours.

But it was all men.

All men.

So I looked up the stats.

On the last Apollo mission, which was Apollo 17, less than 5%