Hayley Caronia

It seems kind of random.

Seems like they might be playing in our faces, but okay.

This mission will be 10 days long, and the crew comprises of four astronauts, Commander Reid Wiseman, Pilot Victor Glover, Mission Specialist Christina Koch, and Jeremy Hansen with the Canadian Space Agency.

So...

This is the first time anyone has attempted to send a crew to the moon in over 50 years.

Artemis II was never supposed to land on the moon, like I've said, but it's going to fly around it to test the capsule with humans on it.

It's going to travel 252,799 miles away from Earth, which is 4,100 miles longer than the Apollo 13 mission.

And as someone who doesn't know anything about anything,

That doesn't seem to be that crazy, assuming the technological advancements that have been made in the last 50 plus years.

You would think that an extra 4000 miles.

And again, do I know what I'm talking about?

No.

But I'm thinking if we if they could do it back then, surely in 57 years, how would they not be able to pull that off?

But anyway, they're doing it and they're testing it.

And I think that's wonderful.

Now, Artemis 3 is a mission planned for 2027 that was supposed to land on the moon, but now it isn't.

NASA has restructured that mission.

They are going to perform a docking and rendezvous test in Earth orbit, and that is going to be the first crewed lunar landing.

It was supposed to be the first crewed lunar landing in, you know, 60 years.

But it is actually now being pushed to 2028.