We're returning to the moon and we're gonna stay. We're gonna build a lunar base. And next up is Artemis II, which is America's moon rocket, it's right behind me, 8.8 million pounds of thrust, we're gonna send four astronauts around the moon in a matter of weeks, safely back to Earth, and then we're gonna set up for missions every year, again in '27 until '28, when we land on moon.
The European Space Agency's long-delayed Rosalind Franklin rover has received a boost with confirmation that NASA is staying in the project. During Director General Josef Achbacher's speech at the agency's Ministerial meeting, where funding is debated and projects proposed and selected, he said [PDF]: "Just yesterday, I received very good news from NASA to confirm their contribution to the Rosalind Franklin Mission."
