Nasa Lunar Exploration 2024. Nasa’s artemis program is heralding a moon rush, and nobody—from spacex to russia—wants to be. With nasa’s artemis campaign, we are exploring the moon for scientific discovery, technology advancement, and to learn how to live and work on another world as we prepare.

Nasa’s commercial lunar payload services program may finally field missions to the moon in 2024. This visualization shows the moon’s phase at hourly intervals throughout 2024, as viewed from the northern hemisphere.