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Workers gather to watch as the core stage of the Space Launch System rocket is transported to the Vehicle Assembly Building, Thursday afternoon, April 29, 2021, at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla. (Craig Bailey/Florida Today via AP) Workers gather to watch as the core stage of the Space Launch System rocket is transported to the Vehicle Assembly Building, Thursday afternoon, April 29, 2021, at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla. (Craig Bailey/Florida Today via AP)
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Right now, you can sign up online to get a 鈥渂oarding pass鈥 for the Artemis I mission, which is expected to blast off and orbit the moon this May or June. Every seat is free, in a way. Artemis I will be an uncrewed test flight for future lunar missions. gets your name added to a flash drive aboard the unoccupied 鈥媍rew capsule, and a flashy digital boarding pass as proof.

Powered by NASA鈥檚 most powerful rocket to date, the , the Artemis I mission will see the uncrewed take off from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida and spend several days circling the moon before returning to earth. If all goes according to plan, the Artemis 2 mission will perform a crewed lunar flyby in 2024.

The ultimate goal of the is to put humans back on the moon by 2025, which is 53 years after the last crewed lunar mission, Apollo 17. In Greek mythology, Artemis fittingly is Apollo鈥檚 twin sister and the moon鈥檚 goddess. As part of the program, NASA will land the first woman and the first person of colour on the lunar surface, where it also plans to work with international and commercial partners to create a long-term human presence, and use those lessons to take astronauts to Mars.

NASA has launched names before, like in 2020 when nearly 11 million names were installed on the , which continues to crawl around the red planet.

is quick and easy. As a bonus, you earn 1.3 million novelty miles, or 2.1 million km, which is the total distance the Artemis 1 mission will travel.

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