If all goes to plan, humanity might be going back to the moon as early as February. Not just machines but actual humans.

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They won't be touching down, rather flying past in a rehearsal for a moon landing, which could take place in 2027.

NASA's Artemis II mission will be much like the Apollo missions which preceded the 1969 moon landing. The crew's flight in the Orion spacecraft will take them 7500km beyond the dark side of the moon. And they will be the first humans to travel beyond low earth orbit since Apollo 17 in 1972.

We should be excited like we were in 1968 when Apollo 8 did

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