NASA’s upcoming Artemis II flight will be the first crewed lunar mission in over 50 years, but it will not land on the moon. Here’s why.

NASA is poised to send astronauts around the moon and back for the first time in more than 50 years.

NASA prepared Artemis II to send astronauts around the Moon for the first time in 50 years, despite delays and rising competition from China’s lunar plans.

The Apollo lunar missions worked by using a spacecraft in two parts. The Command and Service Module (CSM) and the Lunar Module (LM) traveled together from the launch pad at Cape Kennedy to lunar orbit ...