The Artemis II mission is a gender-balanced and Earth-centered mission, but its main claim to fame is taking it just a few hundred miles further than Apollo 13, and getting no closer than 4000 miles to the moon,

Earth is the planet we have the best opportunity to understand in detail—helping us see how other rocky planets behave, even those orbiting distant stars. As a result, scientists are increasingly monitoring Earth from space. NASA alone has dozens of missions dedicated to solving our planet's mysteries.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Ah, Earth. We may not think about our planet on a day-to-day basis, but the world we live in is a pretty interesting place. The third rock from the Sun—and to this day, the only one ...