About Get to the Moon

01Our mission

Humanity is going back to the Moon — this time to stay — and it is happening fast: a robotic lander touches down, an Artemis milestone slips or holds, a new patch of water ice is mapped near the south pole. Our goal is to be the clearest single place to follow it, for a general audience. We pair fast, accurate news with evergreen explainers that stay useful for years, plus live tools like the current Moon phase and the Earth–Moon distance.

02What we cover

We follow the full arc of lunar exploration — from today’s rockets and robotic landers to the systems a permanent base would need.

• The Artemis program — the SLS rocket, the Orion spacecraft, the lunar Gateway station and the crewed return to the surface near the south pole.
• Robotic missions from every agency and company — NASA’s commercial CLPS landers, China’s Chang’e series, India’s Chandrayaan, Japan’s SLIM, and orbiters like the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter.
• Lunar science — water ice in the permanently shadowed polar craters, the geology of the maria and highlands, regolith, and what Moon rocks reveal about the Solar System.
• The technology of getting there and living there — heavy-lift rockets, landers, habitats, power, life support and communications.
• Live sky tools — the current Moon phase, the Earth–Moon distance and more, updated in real time.

03How we work

Every fact we publish — dates, payload masses, mission names, distances, costs — is grounded in primary sources such as NASA, ESA, JAXA, CNSA and ISRO records. Where the future is genuinely uncertain (crewed-landing dates, how much ice is truly accessible, base timelines), we label forecasts as ranges or concepts, never as certainties.

We publish in several languages. Each translation is written and fact-checked for its own audience — not machine-translated in bulk — so the science reads naturally in every language. Our full standards are set out in the editorial policy.

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