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Season 53 · Episode 6
Landed Wed, 15 Apr 2026 · 21:00 your time · 1 episode · 1h 0m
Season 53, Episode 6 of NOVA aired Wednesday, 15 April 2026 at 9pm ET on PBS.
- S53E06Return to the MoonA half-century after American astronauts walked on the Moon, NASA and its international partners are taking the dream of Apollo a giant step further. In the coming years, the Artemis missions – named after Apollo's twin sister in Greek mythology – aim to bring astronauts back to the Moon and establish a lunar space station for scientific and commercial exploration. Follow the four members of the Artemis II crew as they embark on a perilous 10-day journey to orbit the Moon, venturing beyond Earth orbit for the first time since Apollo and farther into the Solar System than any humans have gone before. And get an inside look at the preparations needed to overcome the extreme engineering challenges of human-crewed spaceflight, all the way from launch to splashdown.Correction: This film previously stated that the four engines of the core stage generate 8.8 million pounds of thrust at liftoff. In fact, that much thrust is generated by the entire rocket including the boosters, not the core stage alone. The film has been updated accordingly.
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