After Artemis

The US has maintained its superiority in space because it has a clear vision of where it wants to be and is willing to invest to achieve it. Artemis II has come home from its epic trip around the Moon, but Australia is still on the launch pad. It is time we took off.

4 visions of our future in space

NASA’s flight around the moon is a welcome reminder of its technical achievement and human ambition and in the background, decisions about what happens next and who benefits are already taking shape.

What took so long?

The successful launch of the Artemis II mission to circumnavigate the Moon is a welcome boost for NASA and manned space flight, but why has it taken half a century to return there after Apollo?

The long road back to the Moon

Rather than pursuing a single dramatic landing on the Moon, the U.S. is now pivoting to the steady, repeatable work of building a lasting foothold there and redefining humanity’s relationship with space itself.

Artemis pushed back again

NASA has announced major changes to the Artemis program. The next mission, Artemis III, will now no longer land humans on the surface of the moon, but will instead feature a series of technology tests in Low Earth orbit. Artemis IV will then be the first human landing on the moon, sometime in 2028, we hope.

To Artemis and beyond

NASA’s upcoming Artemis II mission is not just a technological milestone; it is a signal to allies, competitors, industries and future generations that America remains serious about developing its presence in space.

Australia’s rising star in space

Australia is one of eight nations to commit to the Artemis Accords, an agreement setting out principles for cooperation in civil exploration and peaceful use of the moon, Mars, near-earth comets and asteroids.