Nasa’s Artemis II mission has successfully sent four astronauts sweeping around the far side of the Moon and landed them safely back home.
The Orion spacecraft performed admirably and the images the astronauts captured have delighted a whole new generation about the possibilities of space travel.
But does this mean that the children enthralled by the mission will be able to live and work on the Moon in their lifetimes? Perhaps even go to Mars, as the Artemis programme promises?
It seems churlish to say, but looping the Moon was relatively easy. The really hard part lies ahead, so the answer is “maybe, maybe not”.
