A historic moon mission, AI that helps restore stroke patients’ voice and the oldest cave art ever found

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  For Scientific American Science Quickly, I'm Kendra Peer Lewis in for Rachel Feldman.

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  You're listening to our Weekly Science News Random.

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  First, we have an update on humans going back to the moon.

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  In the coming weeks, the first launch window will open for NASA's Artemis II mission.

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  The planned lunar flyby will be the first crewed mission to go beyond low Earth orbit

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  since Apollo 17 in 1972.

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  To learn more about it, we chatted with Lee Billings,

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  science senior desk editor for physical science.

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  Here he is.

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  Artemis is NASA's mission to send astronauts back to the moon.

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  It's been in development in various forums under various guises for 20 years now.

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  Artemis II is really where the rubber meets the road.

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  There was obviously Artemis I, but Artemis I was uncrewed.

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  There were no astronauts on board.

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  It was just meant to show that the key hardware components work properly,

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  that they can get into space and go to the moon and come back.

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  And now we are doing that with humans on board, so it's much higher stakes.

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  Artemis 2 is not going to land on the moon.

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  It's not even going to orbit the moon.

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  Some people get confused about that.

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