Background: The Apollo Legacy and the Road to Artemis The last time humans traveled to the Moon was December 1972, during the NASA Moon mission Apollo 17. That mission closed a golden era of lunar exploration that began with the legendary NASA Moon mission 1969 Apollo 11 when Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin first set foot on the lunar surface. For more than five decades, the Moon remained out of human reach. Now, NASA’s Artemis program has changed that. Designed as the spiritual successor to Apollo, Artemis is NASA’s bold…
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