NASA's Artemis II Moon Mission
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The Lunar Gateway is planned space station that will orbit the Moon. It is part of the Nasa‑led Artemis programme. Artemis aims to return humans to the Moon, establishing a sustainable presence there for scientific and commercial purposes,
NASA still plans to conduct plenty of tests involving the suit, including parabolic flight, which can simulate the partial gravity of the Moon’s surface. The agency has already put the suit through its paces underwater at NASA’s Neutral Buoyancy Lab.
NASA prepares to launch Artemis II mission in September, sending four astronauts around the Moon for the first crewed lunar mission since 1972.
The Artemis II mission was set to launch four astronauts on a trip around the moon no earlier than Sunday, but engineers detected leaking hydrogen at the base of the rocket.