NASA has set itself an ambitious goal: 50 years after the last moon landing, it wants to send a rocket to the moon again. The task of the 42-day Artemis 1 mission is to test the most powerful launch vehicle to date and the Orion capsule at the top under real conditions.

The follow-up mission Artemis 2 is to bring astronauts into a lunar orbit, with Artemis 3 a moon landing should succeed at the earliest in 2025. In the long term, however, it is about a manned mission to Mars.