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.

We should embrace this optimistic future, remembering that investment in space exploration is also an investment on Earth.

The Artemis program was officially named and announced by NASA in May 2019, when Artemis III was intended to land “the first woman and next man” on the lunar South Pole in 2024. Since then, the uncrewed Artemis I test flight launched in 2022, and Artemis II is complete.

NASA's Artemis II mission made history as the first human spaceflight to orbit the moon in more than half a century, sending four astronauts farther from Earth than any human has ever ventured. But the space agency does not quite know what will come next.

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