Has Artemis II shown we can land on the Moon again?

Has Artemis II shown we can land on the Moon again?26 minutes agoShareSaveAdd as preferred on GooglePallab GhoshScience CorrespondentNASANasa has released stunning images from the mission, including our world setting below the lunar surfaceNasa's Artemis II mission has passed every major test since its launch on 1 April, with its rocket, spacecraft and crew performing better than engineers had dared to hope for.The mission's first six days have shown that the Orion capsule works as designed with people on board for the first time - something no simulator could prove.Perhaps its greatest achievement, though, is through the actions of the Artemis crew, which have generated hope, agency and optimism for a world appearing to be in desperate need of inspiration.But the bigger question remains - is a Moon landing by 2028, as Nasa and President Trump want, now really an achievable goal?What Artemis II has taught us so farA few days after Nasa's Space Launch System (SLS) reached the launch pad at Kennedy Space Centre, the most important lesson about Artemis II had already been learned. After two scrubbed launches in February and again in March because of separate technical issues, Nasa Administrator Jared Isaacman said "launching a rocket as important and as complex as SLS every three years is not a path to success." The previous uncrewed Artemis I mission took off in November 2022.The agency, he said, had to stop treating each rocket "like a work of art" and start launching with the frequency of a programme that means serious business. It was, in effect, a declaration that relearning the same lessons every three years had to stop.That matters, because it reframes everything that has followed. And judged against that ambition, what has the mission shown us in the six days since Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, Christina Koch and Jeremy Hansen lifted off on April 1st?The short answer is more than even the optimists dared hope for.NASAA suprisin...