early in september. this debut outing is a test with no crew aboard, but future missions will send astronauts back to the lunar surface. professor katherinejoy, a planetary scientist from the university of manchester, explained to me the difference between the artemis and apollo missions. so it s similar in a sense that there is a very large rocket, which is what is being tested tomorrow, which will be launched to the moon, but it s different in that this time around we hope we can stay for longer. so apollo was a flag planting mission, there was some great science that was achieved by the six missions that successfully visited the moon, but with artemis we kind of want to go beyond this. we want to go to the moon, learn how to live there and sustain a presence where we can have a research presence with people on the moon for a long period of time. so landing a base, delivering logistic supplies and learning how to do this in the longer term so that we can learn, developing a technolog
on climate change in us are bad, thank you very much for your perspective. it s taken half a century, but nasa is one step closer to putting humans back on the moon. tomorrow afternoon, it will launch a major test flight from the kennedy space center in florida, currently scheduled for 13:33 bst. if this is delayed because of issues with the weather, there are other back up windows for launch early in september. this debut outing is a test with no crew aboard, but future missions will send astronauts back to the lunar surface. i m joined now by professor katherine joy who s a planetary scientist from the university of manchester. professorjoy, thank you very much forjoining us. how will artemis differfrom the apollo forjoining us. how will artemis differ from the apollo missions? forjoining us. how will artemis differfrom the apollo missions? so differ from the apollo missions? so it differ from the apollo missions? if it is differ from the apollo missions? 5r it is similarany differ f
but nasa is one step closer to putting humans back on the moon. tomorrow afternoon, it will launch a major test flight from the kennedy space center in florida, currently scheduled for 13:33 bst if this is delayed because of issues with the weather, there are other back up windows for launch early in september. this debut outing is a test with no crew aboard, but future missions will send astronauts back to the lunar surface. professor katherinejoy, a planetary scientist from the university of manchester, explained to me the difference between the artemis and apollo missions. so it s similar in a sense that there is a very large rocket, which is what is being tested tomorrow, which will be launched to the moon, but it s different in that this time around we hope we can stay for longer. so apollo was a flag planting mission, there was some great science that was achieved by the six missions that successfully visited the moon, but with artemis we kind of want to go beyond this. we want t