From April 1st to the 11th, NASA led a team of four record-breaking astronauts on a mission to the moon and back. It was the first crewed flight of the NASA-led Artemis program, as well as their first to set out beyond low Earth orbit ever since Apollo 17 back in 1972.
The plan, according to NASA and joint international partners, is to sustain a permanent human foothold at the lunar South Pole, a plan that is notably in direct competition with China's Mengzhou project, which has similar goals. Both set a target for 2030.