Rebecca Morelle, Alison Francis, Paul Sargeant and the Visual Journalism team at the BBC:
Four astronauts will take a trip of more than half a million miles around our celestial neighbour and back home in a mission filled with wonderment, but also danger.
Nasa’s Artemis II mission – which is scheduled to launch as soon as 1 April – will bring us stunning views of the Moon and a new understanding of the lunar environment.
It will also pave the way for a landing and, eventually, a Moon base – our first step in learning how to live on another world.
But the voyage comes with serious risks – the crew will fly in a spacecraft never used by humans before.
And there will be personal challenges: the astronauts will spend 10 days cramped together in a spacecraft the size of a minibus.
So how will this high-stakes mission work?
More here.
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