Fifty years after humans went to the moon, NASA is set to return to our solar system in a mission to bring back information from the moon and beyond.

A spaceship named the Artemis will orbit the moon for 42 days testing environmental control conditions in the hopes of putting humans back on the moon.

Enrico Palermo, the Head of the Australian Space Agency, told Liam Bartlett on 6PR Mornings that the largest rocket ever built will blast off from the Kennedy Space Centre tonight using the same pad used for the Apollo moon landing.

“Australia is playing a vital role in this mission,” he said.

“Artemis is an international collaboration looking at how we can establish a permanent presence onto the moon and into space.”

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