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Dan Winters

SpaceX's Starship rocket is designed to launch heavy payloads to orbit and even land astronauts on the moon and Mars. Its first test flight, however, ended when it broke apart in flight.

In late 2024, four astronauts will launch atop NASA’s Space Launch System rocket—seen here during a November test flight—for Artemis II, a 10-day flyby mission around the moon. NASA’s naming of the Artemis II crew marks the first lunar crew announcement in more than 50 years.

NASA's Space Launch System (SLS) rocket illuminates the hazy sky with the countdown clock at Kennedy Space Center visible in the foreground.

The Artemis I mission lifts off from NASA's Kennedy Space Center, sending a new spacecraft on an uncrewed test flight to the moon.

In a series of analogue missions known as D-RATS, NASA tested how astronauts would operate a pressurised rover on the surface of the moon or Mars. This 3.3-ton concept rover can drive in any direction.

Cardman’s JETT3 crew member, Drew Feustel, trained as a geophysicist before joining NASA. He now serves as the deputy chief of NASA’s astronaut office.

A geoscientist by training, JETT3 astronaut Zena Cardman has participated in multiple analogue missions, including JETT2, an earlier moonwalk test that took place in Iceland.

NASA astronauts Zena Cardman and Drew Feustel recently navigated through the San Francisco Volcanic Field north of Flagstaff, Arizona, as part of an elaborate simulation meant to prepare for future moonwalks.

Lit on all sides within NASA's cavernous Vehicle Assembly Building, the fully stacked SLS and Orion for Artemis I await their first rollout for a ”wet dress rehearsal" of fueling and countdown procedures.