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Today’s Mission to the Moon
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Today, NASA is set to send four astronauts on a trip around the moon and back. If the mission succeeds, a return of astronauts to the moon’s surface could follow.
Kenneth Chang, who covers science, explains why the United States wants to go back to the moon.
Guest: Kenneth Chang, a science reporter at The New York Times who writes about NASA and the solar system.
Background reading:
- What to know about NASA’s Artemis II moon mission.
- For a member of the crew, the journey to the moon is “starting to feel real.”
Photo: Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images
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