Biologists believe that Moon’s poles harbours reservoirs of water ice that could be purified as drinking water, converted into breathable oxygen, and used as fuel by astronauts.
The Orion spacecraft could be on its first trip to the moon on the Artemis I mission in less than a month, but teams at Kennedy Space Center continue to prep the next capsules planned for human missions.
NASA: Artemis I is an uncrewed flight test to launch SLS and send Orion around the Moon and back to Earth to thoroughly test its system before flights with astronauts.