Four astronauts will soon be sent around the moon aboard Nasa’s most powerful rocket – the first trip back in more than 50 years.
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Jared Isaacman, the billionaire private astronaut sworn in as the head of Nasa in December, said the plan was “probably one of the most important human spaceflight missions in the last half-century”.
It will be the second time in space for three Nasa astronauts, Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover and Christina Koch, and the first for Jeremy Hansen, a Canadian astronaut. Koch will become the first woman, and Glover the first person of colour, to travel beyond low Earth orbit.
But why is the US sending people back to the moon now?
The Guardian journalist Oliver Holmes explains how the answer has a lot to do with money, politics and even the ambitious goal of reaching Mars.
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