The most powerful rocket in history is being built and tested by NASA to send American astronauts back to the Moon, through the Artemis program.
Derived from the Greek goddess of the Moon and twin sister to Apollo, whose namesake program first brought crews to the Moon 50 years ago, the Artemis program will send the first woman and next man to the lunar south pole by 2024 – an ambitious deadline set last year by President Donald Trump.
This time when NASA goes to the Moon, the space agency is going to stay, with the purpose of learning how to live and work on another world so it can use that knowledge and information to take its next giant leap – sending astronauts to Mars. And cryogenics will play a major role in this.
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