Michael Barbaro

The mission is one of several that are expected to culminate in the next few years with the return of humans to the moon for the first time in decades.

Today's episode was produced by Eric Krupke, Shannon Lin, Lexi Diao, and Jack DeCeduro, with help from Claire Tennesketter.

It was edited by Rob Zipko and MJ Davis-Lynn, with help from Lindsay Arison.

Contains music by Marian Lozano, Chelsea Daniel, and Pat McCusker.

Our theme music is by Wonderly.

This episode was engineered by Alyssa Moxley.

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I'm Michael Barbaro.

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From the New York Times, I'm Michael Barbaro.

This is The Daily.

Nearly six decades after the United States put men on the moon... That's one small step for man...

It is returning to that mission.

And today, a major step in that process will begin in Florida.

My colleague Ken Chang is there and explains why it is that the United States wants to go back to the moon.

It's Wednesday, April 1st.

Ken, welcome back to The Daily.

So we always turn to you when something big and meaningful is happening in space, and something big and meaningful is happening today, weather permitting.

So does the weather permit this big and meaningful thing to happen on Wednesday?