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Earlier this month, Elon Musk announced that his company,
SpaceX, has shifted its focus from Mars to the moon,
with the mission to build a self-growing city on the moon,
which he says they can potentially achieve in less than 10 years.
Now, that might sound hard to believe.
After all, no human has stepped foot on the lunar surface since 1972.
But now, for the first time in more than half a century,
there's a new mission to the moon, NASA's Artemis program.
NASA is intending to launch a crew of astronauts around the moon this spring.
From the BBC, I'm Asma Khalid in Washington, DC.
And today on The Global Story, America is going back to the moon.
This time, China is on a similar mission of its own.
What does this new space race mean?
And why are countries on Earth competing for a piece of the moon?
I'm Rebecca Murrow, and I'm the BBC's science editor.
Fantastic.
Thank you so much for joining us, Rebecca.
You are involved in this podcast called 13 Minutes, Artemis II, about the Artemis II mission.
Can you tell us a little bit more about the series?