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Hey there, and welcome to Tech Stuff.

I'm your host, Jonathan Strickland.

I'm an executive producer with IHeart Podcasts, and how the tech are you?

So initially, I had planned to have a brand new episode, because we have so few left,

before I hand the show over to new hosts.

But unfortunately, in the process of putting that show together, I had multiple, no, this is ironic,

technological failures that have set me back.

So rather than go without an episode today, I thought one thing we could do is revisit an episode

that published a couple of years ago about the Artemis program.

This is the program at NASA that

aims to return astronauts to the surface of the moon. Now, that particular program has recently,

it's been announced that it's had some setbacks, some delays. Not a big surprise. There have been a lot

of issues going on with NASA and spacecraft in general. And so now the mission that would send

astronauts to do a flyby of the moon, they would pass behind the moon and then come back to Earth.

That is pushed back to 2026, and hopefully we would once again have astronauts on the moon's

surface by 2027.

Whether that happens or not remains to be seen, but I thought perhaps it would be a good

idea to revisit this episode, the Artemis program, and kind of

reflect on the mission itself. Like, why does the mission exist? What are its goals? And what

potentially could we gain from this? Keeping in mind that it's frequently impossible to predict what you could

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