Following countless delays plaguing its efforts to return the first astronauts to the lunar surface in over half a century, NASA could finally be bucking the trend.

NASA officials revealed today that the agency’s Artemis 2 mission, which will see a crew of four astronauts travel around the Moon and back, could launch as soon as February 5, roughly two months earlier than previously anticipated.

Back in December, NASA’s administrator at the time Bill Nelson announced that Artemis 2 would be pushed from late 2025 to April 2026, while Artemis 3, the first planned mission to the lunar surface, would slip to mid-2027.

But during a mission update from NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston, acting deputy associate administrator for NASA’s Exploration Systems Development Mission Directorate La

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