NASA, Apollo and Artemis
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People may know Artemis as NASA’s return-to-the-Moon program. However, it is much more than a rerun of Project Apollo.
Like Apollo 8 in 1968, NASA's Artemis 2 mission from Florida will send a crew of astronauts around the moon and back without landing.
Photos show the rocket and spacecraft that NASA will use to launch astronauts toward the moon for the first time in more than 50 years.
In an on-going overhaul of NASA's Artemis program, agency officials say it will take seven years to build a sophisticated base on the moon.
NASA unveiled plans to build a moon base near the lunar south pole that will one day allow for American astronauts to have a permanent presence.