All going well, a four-person crew will soon launch into deep space. But delays and troubled test flights have led some to call for radical change.
NASA’s Space Launch System and Orion spacecraft atop the mobile launcher at NASA’s Kennedy Space Centre in Florida on February 1. AP
The Economist
If flying to the moon were like swimming the English Channel, no one in the 53 years since Apollo 17 splashed down in the Pacific would have ventured more than 40 metres from the beach.
That is about to change. Some time in the coming weeks, all being well, Artemis II, Apollo’s successor, will carry a crew of four back there.
